Word: dusseldorf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short war faded last week, wishful thinkers turned to a fresh hope that might bring about war's end: the internal collapse of Germany. Outside the Reich, newspapers carried dispatch after dispatch pointing toward such a possibility. From Zurich came reports of rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with...
George W. Rothschild '39, of Chicago; Ernest J. Sargeant '40, of Spokane, Washington; Helmut W. Schumann '41, of Dusseldorf, Germany; Reinhold S. Schumann '41, of Dusseldorf, Germany; Theodore L. Sondak '40, of Gary, Indiana; Philip E. Shick '39, of Van Wert, Ohio; John K. Shinn Jr. '40, of Coral Gables, Florida...
After his graduation from Harvard, Haseltine went to Europe to study in the then famous Dusseldorf School in Germany. He became primarily a landscape painter, finding his subjects in Italy and elsewhere. These works have been exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia and at the Academy in New York. Like many other American artists of his day, he settled in Rome and was active in founding the American Academy at Rome...
...based on the famous Dusseldorf murders of a few years ago, when a madman managed to kill eight children before he was apprehended, and a certain grim note is added to the picture by the knowledge that it is not a fictional account. The murderer is obviously a sexual pervert, a fact that is brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer...
...Reich did a brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring horns and throbbing drums. Mr. & Mrs. Velz...