Word: direktor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months the great shipyard of Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, where the Bremen and Europa lay, had been guarded like a military fortress. No one-not even STIMMING himself-was allowed to enter without showing an elaborately documented pass. Certainly Herr Direktor Karl Stimming of the North German Lloyd-a man of such arresting reticence that he keeps even his first name out of the German Who's Who, and is known to most of his awed subordinates only as STIMMING-would not have decreed these iron precautions...
...flies, and he is always in a hurry, though his mannerisms and probably his thoughts are deliberate. A most annoying habit is to speak to subordinates in tones so low that only by straining can they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters...
Impudent, a Communist mail carrier did not doff his cap one morning last week in the presence of the Herr Direktor of the Vienna Post Office. Irate, the Herr Direktor bellowed, gave this minion a thoroughgoing rebuke...
...Ship. Catholic passengers on North German Lloyd vessels last week prayed, with content and quietude unusual aboard ship, before altars permanently built in. They knew too that Herr Direktor Adolf Stadtlander of the line had told His Holiness of this convenience for voyaging Catholic immigrants and church missions, had indicated that his was the only line so permanently equipped, had received the Apostolic blessing for the ventures of the North German Lloyd...
From this lapse he has just recently recovered gloriously. Paris had two Mozart festivals, both in the beautiful Theâtre des Champs-Elysées. The first of these was the venture of the Vienna Opera, complete with orchestra, singers, scenery and Herr Direktor Franz Schalk. It was part of an "official tour." Six operas were presented. There was no "modernizing," but the strictest possible adherence, to the purest Mozart traditions. Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle. Restraint and sobriety...