Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wolfgang Koehler, William James Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology is appointed professor of Philosophy and director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin, for the first half of 1934-35. Clarence Arthur Brodeur '27 has been appointed assistant in Fine Arts, and Frank Howard Clark has been appointed assistant in Zoology for the same period. For one year from September 1, 1934, the following have been appointed: Walter Edwin Sewall, Arthur Everett Pitcher, and William Clare Taylor, instructors in Mathematics, and Henry Miles O'Bryan, instructor of physics...
...state Supreme Court, the first to sentence a murderer to death. Born in Salt Lake City, Florence Allen, at 15, moved with her family to Cleveland, was her class cheer leader at Western Reserve, graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1904. An able musician, she went to Berlin to study, earned piano money by writing criticisms for New York's Musical Courier. Two years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor. New York University gave her an LL. B. An able feminist, a Dry, an opponent of war, she soon became...
...mirrored for us and crystallized in Parliament. . . . "Democracy is the most difficult form of government because it requires the participation of all the people in the country. . . . The wheels may be creaking, but are you sure the wheels of the coach of state are not creaking in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna? Are you quite cer tain they are not creaking even in the United States? "Dictatorship is like a great beech tree - nice to look at, but nothing grows underneath it. The whole tendency is to squeeze out the competent and independent man and to create a hierarchy of those...
Three days before last week's Berlin premiere of Catherine the Great, British-made cinema in which Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian-born Jewess, plays the young queen (TIME, Feb. 19), Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels issued a pro- nouncement: "Non-Aryans who had disappeared and who had apparently, for the most part fled abroad, are again appearing in German theatres. ... It must not come to this, that the public takes to self-help to defend itself. . . ." To make the pronouncement plainer, Dr. Goebbels' newspaper, Der Angriff, published an article which flayed Jewish actors in general and Elizabeth Bergner...
...barbarous times but as a member of an injured race. This story of what has been happening to the Jews in Germany will perhaps be taken by Nazi-sympathizers as special pleading. Plain readers will rate it a first-class indictment, a second-class novel. The Oppermann family of Berlin had come through the War and post-War years with colors never below half-mast. In 1932 they considered themselves well and truly fixed as German citizens. Gus- tav, senior partner in the family furniture business, was a 50-year-old bachelor who enjoyed most moments of his ordered life...