Word: denly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this fight last week Vandenberg came in top form. The much-used bookcases in the unpretentious two-story brick-stucco house in Grand Rapids had been explored night after night; the rolltop desk in his little den had rattled steadily under the impact of his heavy-handed typing. That house holds all of Arthur Vandenberg's private life. There he moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work...
From that den he fired the editorials that brought praise from President Woodrow Wilson, whom he loved and supported until the League of Nations issue burgeoned in 1919. There he fell in love with traditions, with constitutionalism, with Alexander Hamilton. He still wears a rosette of the Sons of the American Revolution in his coat lapel...
Yesterday I heard the Field Marshal's impassioned speech to the munition workers at Tegel. ... At the end of the speech the workers sang Deutschland über Alles. To my astonishment I heard them sing the old, unchanged words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt...
Army Commander: Lt. General E. M. Van den Bergen...
...Pastry Chef Hans Rohrbeck in 1904 used to bake the Kaiser's Streusselkuchen every morning in Kranzler's, a royally appointed Unter den Linden confectionery. The Kaiser's taste then was for Kuchen with only the very largest Streussel possible on top of it. Rohrbeck came to the U. S. in 1908, became a citizen in 1913, lost his job this year after some 30 years as a pastry chef in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. When even his yum-yum recipe for Streusselkuchen* failed to find him a post over the radio, Hans Rohrbeck went...