Word: brauns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...balance of the board: Livingston Erringer Jones, president First National, Philadelphia; Arthur E. Braun, president Farmers Deposit National, Pittsburgh; John King Ottley, president First National, Atlanta; Frank Bartow Anderson, chairman Bank of California; John Maffit Miller Jr., First & Merchants National, Richmond; Edward Williams Decker, president Northwestern National; Walter Scott McLucas, chairman Commerce Trust Co., Kansas City; Nathan Adams, First National, Dallas...
...With his $25,000 Guarnerius violin tucked cosily beneath his arm, Violinist Harry Braun, 22, walked down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one night last week. Protege of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and of Lieut. Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, pupil of the late great Leopold Auer, he was given his violin by Philanthropist August Heckscher. He was to play on it at his Carnegie Hall debut in January. As Violinist Braun crossed Fifth Avenue a truck came lumbering along. He dodged. The violin case slithered from under his arm, landed squarely in the truck's path...
...plebiscite over 50% of the qualified voters in Prussia (roughly 13,500,000 citizens) had to scrawl JA on their ballots. The tactics of Chancellor Brüning and Premier Braun of Prussia were not to urge citizens to vote against it, but to urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment...
Bloodshed. Election came and went and only 37% of the Prussian electorate voted for dissolution of the Diet. Brüning & Braun were saved. But they were not saved without bloodshed. When Communists in Berlin learned that the referendum was failing the most serious street fighting broke out that Germany has seen since the Bloody May Day of 1929 (TIME, May 13, 1929) In Bulow Square police with rifles in their hands patrolled the streets near the Communist headquarters, Liebknecht House. Suddenly, as at a given command, spurts of fire burst from the windows, from nearby roofs. Two police captains...
...Standards physicist, had determined more accurately than ever before the value of G, constant of gravitation. He found it to be .00000006670 dynes.* The most commonly accepted value for G has been .00000006658 dynes obtained in 1895-96 by Physicists Charles Vernon Boys in England and Karl Ferdinand Braun in Germany...