Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leichtentritt has spent the greater part of his life in Germany teaching composition and musical history in a Berlin conservatory of Music but attended Harvard College, and graduated...
...cupola and the great central hall of Berlin's Reichstag Building were gutted by a mysterious fire last winter (TIME, March 6). Ostensibly to fix the blame the Nazi Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being...
...ended factually in the sharp-bitten order of Sub-Dictator Hermann Wilhelm Goring to revive the medieval headsman's axe and chopping block in executing criminals duly condemned by Prussian courts to Death (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week three heads rolled off bloody blocks in the courtyards of Berlin prisons and a prominent Nazi official furnished correspondents with beheading facts...
...block. A state's attorney reads the verdict of Death, cries. "Executioner do your duty!" Not bad fellows, several butchers have treated the condemned to hearty meals at their own expense the night before execution, supplying the meat from their own butcher shops. Counting these and the Berlin executions, 31 heads have rolled off German chopping blocks since Captain Goring revived the fashion. Five more beheadings took place in other parts of the Reich last week...
...back & forth; the Navy made him a Commander, M.I.T. made him a D. Sc. He designed the famed NC flying ships, one of which was the first airplane to cross the Atlantic, and the Shenandoah, first helium-filled dirigible. For three years he was Assistant Naval Attache in London, Berlin, Rome. When the Shenandoah's crash was laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work on meteorology and radio communications, resigned from the Navy to join the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. he, with Dr. Karl Arnstein who built 70 German...