Word: carls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because Carl von Ossietzky is a Pacifist, not forgetting that during the War he fought bravely for Germany, but unwilling to forgive him for having published in 1929-three years before Adolf Hitler came to power-an article accusing the German Army of spending too much money, the Nazis in 1933 jugged Carl von Ossietzky in a prison camp. Last week Berlin correspondents put up the plea that since Herr von Ossietzky had just been awarded the $40,000 Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 30), perhaps, as a great favor, the Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment would authorize them...
...strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor zu Wied. To his heated protests Dr. Koht replied, "The Norwegian Government is not responsible. You may address yourself to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee." Next morning Nazi newspapers...
...attended the School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with his mail-order business on a high scientific plane. He was killed by an automobile...
...Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold the rest to Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service...
Five men blossomed forth in the poetry of John Masefield and Carl Sandburg, the former's "I Must Go Down to the Sea Again," being especially popular...