Word: bremen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Speed Queen of the Atlantic for 22 years, the Manrctania was finally dethroned in 1929 by the Bremen on her maiden trip. Few weeks later the old Cunarder amazed the world by steaming from New York to Plymouth in 4 days. 17 hr., 49 min., breaking her own eastbound record but not the Bremen's. The effort strained the Mauretania's 30,000 tons to the limit. She never tried it again...
With an umbrella, two walking sticks and an escort of 15 newshawks, Novelist Herbert George Wells strode up & down the deck of the Bremen as she steamed into New York Harbor. "Did you know that Rasputin's daughter is on the boat?" asked a newshawk. Mr. Wells did not, wished he had. Off to the lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin...
German shipping stocks slumped so badly on Berlin 'Change at news of the new Nazi whimsy that Realmleader Hitler decided at the last moment to lend his prestige to the launching of an 18,000-ton ship at Bremen, astonished everyone by his unexpected arrival, ran down a busload of actors on his way home (see below...
Over the ordered dead Adolf Hitler again made the sign of the Nazi, clicked his heels, climbed back into his private car, continued on his way from Bremen to Berlin...
...assassin, and a closeup of his gun. Before the eyes of a half dozen cameras, the assassin was trampled to death by the crowd, and bystanders fell before a wild fusillade of police bullets. The newsreel crews rushed their precious films to Paris by air, hoping to catch the Bremen or Aquitania about to sail for the U. S. To their indescribable rage, the films were seized at Le Bourget Airport and at Cherbourg on orders of the Surété Nationale, because supposedly the pictures vividly illustrated lack of police protection for Alexander. After two days of wrangling...