Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxious to meet relatives and friends of Cleveland people. That started a forlorn parade to his room at the Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...
...with the satchel. Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper, as a Nazi agent. They charged that 1) he had agreed to maintain a refuge for Nazi saboteurs in the U.S.; 2) he had sent a code letter to Germany, and received back two letters in code from his wife, Bertha, who is still in Germany...
Fine Distinction. In Chicago, Miss Bertha Palmer lectured her colleagues of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on how to tell "the difference between a beer bottle and a whiskey bottle...
...Died. Bertha Knight Landes, 75, first woman mayor of a major U.S. city (Seattle, 1926-28); in Ann Arbor, Mich. Wife of a professor, mother of two, vigorous Mrs. Landes became "wide-open" Seattle's mayor at 58. She made its trolley lines pay for the first time in ten years, made life miserable for pimps and bookies...
...Malina, are cooking with propulsion for the newly founded Aerojet Engineering Corp., in Pasadena. The Luftwaffe is using highly effective rocket guns on its fighters. Unconfirmed, but believable, is the report that the Germans have at least one more rocket weapon: a gun which will outdistance the Big Bertha of World War I and hit London from the Channel coast...