Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utah Assembly in 1916. Later he remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan staff. Secretary Mellon sent him to Berlin as a Customs Agent to spot smugglers, to prepare highly complex valuation lists. In 1924 he was back in the U. S. serving as Secretary Mellon's personal representative before the Senate Finance Committee during the framing of the tax reduction bill of that year. He returned to Berlin...
...York Daily News and nickel-weekly Liberty, rode around the Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor, 200-lb. Robert Wood, went aboard as a passenger. The McCormick ship was named, oddly, the 'Untin' Bowler, partly because a hunting bowler hat is supposed to protect its wearer if he falls...
Pilot Parker W. ("Shorty") Cramer, 33, was the man who initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as far as stormy Greenland (TIME, Sept. 10). Two months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson...
Last week one Heinz Guenther Perl, 21, precocious Berlin inventor who has belonged to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin since he was 15 (for inventing a table stove), averred that in four months he would fly through the cold, thin stratosphere. Professor Albert Einstein approved his plan on theoretical grounds. So did Count Georg Wilhelm Alexander Haus Arco, President of the Telefunken Co. (radio builders). So did professors at the Berlin Polytechnic Institute. So, in effect, did the enthusiastic New York Times which obtained and printed a long exclusive Perl interview...
...will succeed Artur Bodanzky as conductor for next season's German repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera. He will reach the U. S. in September, speaking little English. Since taking honors at Vienna's Academy of Music, he has held posts with the Vienna Philharmonic choir, the Berlin opera school, the Württembergische Landstheater in Stuttgart, the Wiesbaden Opera. Der Rosenkavalier with Mme. Jeritza, compatriot, whom he has never met, may introduce Herr Rosenstock to Manhattan...