Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shares apiece of Vickers stock for the sole purpose of attending this meeting. One of them, Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Independent M. P., rose to ask a few questions. Was it not true that despite the prohibitions of the Versailles Treaty full-page advertisements of Vickers tanks were published in Berlin papers? Would the chairman swear on his honor that no Vickers munitions were being secretly shipped to Germany and Austria, possibly to be used against British troops...
...front lines of their boycott war against Nazi Germany. Noting "consumer resistance to goods of German origin," Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. announced that in the past six months their German orders had declined 98%. Hence, the biggest department store in the U. S. was closing its Berlin purchasing office, moving to Prague. Few days later Bernard F. Gimbel announced: "There now being practically no demand for German merchandise Gimbel Brothers, Inc. have discontinued buying German goods." Other big Manhattan department stores which have closed their Berlin offices or otherwise stopped buying German goods include Lord & Taylor, which...
...Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce a little cold turkey with their banquet chicken. After a long, oft-told analysis of Germany's uncomfortable position in international finance, he slipped out two new threats. Much of Germany's commercial borrowings, he said, have gone not into German business, but directly to pay reparations. "The entire conglomeration of political obligations," he declared, "weighs like a mountain on international trade." On the theory that all Germany's outstanding debts are political, President Schacht concluded that "an attempt must be made to reach an agreement," i. e. to cancel...
...heard her only in Lieder suddenly wanted to know more about this stately youthful person who could act as well as sing. During her first years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions...
...books. Verse und Prose, has been published in Vienna. Berlin publishers have the first installments of her autobiography but she doubts if it will ever be released. They want her to add chapters on her U. S. triumphs. Says Mme Lehmann: "I would not feel very intelligent to sit down and write over and over again T am success, I am success. I am success...