Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
...When he grew up and became a clerk in a miner's supply store, he one day allowed a prospector to settle a $250 debt with the deed to a tin mine. This got him fired, put him in the tin business just as the mines of Saxony, Bohemia and Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines. By 1924 he owned much more than half the swollen Bolivian output, was known in half a dozen capitals...
Hearstpapers handled the Wiegand piece with care, and played its headlines way down. Unspectacular also - but devastating - was the press conference comment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "That brings recollections." - e.g., unwanted Austria, disclaimed Sudetenland, renounced Bohemia, Moravia, useless Memel, undesired Poland...
Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
...Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March 1939 he proposed to land in Reykjavik with a large delegation of Germans who would conduct genealogical research all over the kingdom to establish the "Viking ancestry" of prominent Nazis. It was just luck for Iceland that Adolf Hitler took Bohemia-Moravia instead, and Genealogist Himmler canceled his Reykjavik appointment to rush to Prague...