Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself could scarcely believe that such things could occur in a twentieth century civilization." He then explained that he had ordered Ambassador Hugh Wilson home from Berlin not by way of formal recall, but to gain "a first-hand picture."* His statement of U. S. abhorrence of Hitler's pogroms was one of the strongest ever directed by a U. S. President at a "friendly" power. Later, White House Secretary Steve Early explained that it was intended to apply to outrages upon Catholics as well as Jews...
...Commerce Department explained that the recall of Commercial Attache Douglas Miller simultaneously from the Berlin Embassy was routine, a coincidence...
Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...
...BERLIN--Germany is negotiating with several Central and South American nations for admission of large numbers of the Reich's 700,000 unwanted Jews, it was understood in well-informed quarters tonight...
...negoiations were said to be progressing "favorably" with the Dominican Republic whose minister to Berlin tonight was en route to Munich, perhaps for consultation with Chancellor Adolf Hitler...