Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime secretary to the Social Democratic Party in the Reichstag, claimed that the incendiaries could not have entered the Reichstag except through a tunnel leading from the official residence of the Reichstag President, Prussia's barrel-chested Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring. A onetime Police President of Berlin testified that 1,500 arresting warrants were ready for use immediately after the fire. Liberal Editor Georg Bernhard and Social Democrat Chairman Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid agreed that the Nazis were the only party that could have benefited from the Reichstag fire, that Communists would have set it only...
...Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss was born Oct. 4, 1892. There his black-shawled old mother and his stepfather still live. Who his father was foreign correspondents have been unable to prove and his adherents will not say. He graduated from the University of Vienna law school, studied National Economy in Berlin. At the outbreak of the War, Engelbert Dollfuss promptly enlisted in the Kaiserschützenregiment, a corps of Tyrol Alpinists...
...street corners this autumn, one of the leading catch tunes of 1933. And the two little pigs have had their song published, the first of the Disney creatures to accomplish so much. They have established a market for future Disney tunes with a contract, signed last week, whereby Irving Berlin's publishing house will have the sheet-music rights over Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies...
According to the contract Irving Berlin and Walt Disney (whose income already amounts to $400,000 a year) will share the profits. But Disney will give half his share to his staff composer and conductor, Frank Churchill, a tall shy Rumford, Me., native who is responsible for all the tunes that Mickey Mouse and the Disney animals jig to. Disney gives him a story in terms of line drawings and film frames. Churchill works out a score which must have a definite number of beats for each of the frames so that the sound-track will synchronize perfectly with...
...Reprinted by permission of Irving Berlin...