Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these moderates (who include Bremen's Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt) have their way, the party's old nationalization program will be put into storage, and policymaking will be shifted from the hands of party bureaucrats based in Bonn to a larger body of more flexible Social Democratic leaders in closer touch with the voters, and with a more pragmatic approach to practicalities. Above all, the reformers intend that the party shall not go to the people again in 1961 with Erich Ollenhauer, a two-time loser, as its candidate for the chancellorship...
Emotionally, Cozzens drifted until he was himself possessed by love. He first met Sylvia Bernice Baumgarten in mid-1926 on business, when she was a fledgling literary agent for Brandt & Kirkpatrick (now Brandt & Brandt). Of his feelings at the time, he says laconically: "I suppose sex entered into it. After all, what's a woman for?" But in dedicating Son of Perdition, Cozzens was more gallant. The flyleaf is inscribed to her with these lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Outliving her beauty's outward, with a mind/ That doth renew swifter than blood decays." Cozzens...
...Brandt? Late in April, still keeping his Brooklyn studio, Abel checked in at Manhattan's little Latham Hotel, off Fifth Avenue, as Martin Collins of Daytona Beach, Fla. On June 21 Agent Edward Boyle, of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, ordered to make a routine arrest of an illegal alien, found Abel in his hotel room along with a short-wave radio receiver and a bankbook showing deposits of $15,000. Checking Abel's pockets, Boyle discovered $6,000 and a clothing store receipt addressed to Emil Goldfus. "Who's he?" asked Boyle. "That...
...tubes, high-speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly a code for an art-gallery rendezvous: "Is this an interesting picture? Yes. Do you want me to see it, Mr. Brandt? Smokes pipe and has red book in left hand...
...sealed off its network to live broadcasts of the first Beck hearings in March by Washington's WTOP. But WMAL's General Manager Fred Houwink polled other ABC affiliates and found plenty of interest. Most interested of all: Seattle's lively KING, whose manager, Otto Brandt, went quickly into action. Brandt lined up six other ABC affiliates willing to share the costs, also flew one of his announcers to Washington to help with the coverage...