Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...
...Berlin replied to this with typical Nazi bumbling. Press attache of the Austrian legation in Berlin was a Dr. Erwin Wasserback. Dr. Wasserback's position as a diplomat had not only long been accepted but he was in addition a Catholic priest. No Austrian bombs have burst in Berlin, but German police promptly called at his house with a warrant. Dr. Wasserback hopped out of bed, picked up the telephone, called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in London...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
...patronage against the season of 1933-34 when Copperheir William Andrews Clark Jr. has announced that he will no longer stand its deficits. Last week Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive rebounded to Los Angeles' benefit. As soon as Conductor Otto Klemperer was kicked out of the Berlin State Opera where his contract had four more years to run, Los Angeles quickly signed...
Detroit's population averages the youngest among major U. S. cities: 55.68% of its people being under 30 years, according to a Metropolitan Life Insurance study published last week. Tokyo is the most "youthful'' of world capitals, with 67.07% of its people under 30, Berlin and Paris are among least "youthful...