Word: brandenburger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin newsorgans picked out with bold-face type last week certain phrases in a speech by Nazi Wilhelm Kube. Provincial Governor of Berlin & Brandenburg, which sounded like a hint that pudgy little Chancellor Adolf Hitler could easily be persuaded to accept a crown...
Died. Ernst von Borsig, 63, famed German locomotive & machinery tycoon, senior head of once potent A. Borsig. Ltd., biggest member of the Borsig group (second biggest German one-family business*), bankrupted last year and forced to accept government aid; of heart disease; on his country estate Gross Syphen Behnitz, Brandenburg...
...different modern composer of high ability for that great Bach enthusiast, who appeared not long ago as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The choral prelude and choral "Ach, bleth hei uns. Herr Jesu Christ," for instance is done by Vaughan Williams, whereas the Andante of the second Brandenburg Concerto is transcribed by Eugene Geosens. Care has been taken in all cases to keep as near the original harmony as possible. The book should be valuable to anyone who enjoys Bach and likes to play the plane...
...desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn up for days. If published, it will declare martial law throughout Germany, and the indefinite suspension of the Reichstag and parliamentary government. Pleasant, unassuming Kurt von Schleicher was born in Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, in 1882. In 1900 he entered the army at the age of 18. in the midst of the great final period of the German Empire. Because of the von in his name and his family connections he was able to get a commission in the Third Guard Regiment...
...execution of the measures requisite for restoring public serenity the entire police force of the designated district [Berlin and the province of Brandenburg] is put under the person clothed with executive power...