Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bavaria, Baden, Thuringia, Württemberg, Hesse, the Nazis forbade kosher slaughtering of meat. The National Government forbade any Jew to leave Germany without special police permission stamped on his passport. Chief Engineer Walter Schaeffer of the Rundfunk Wireless Organization was dismissed from his post, committed suicide. Albert Einstein's bank deposits ($5,955 in securities, $1,191 in cash) were confiscated. The Professor announced that he would renounce his German citizenship...
...which were duly conveyed to Widow Ebert. Later Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Minister of Interior for Prussia (i. e. of police), apologized to Germany's George Washington's still trembling widow. Safe outside Germany where he says he will stay "because of Hitlerism," Professor Albert Einstein read last week that his home had been burst into and ransacked by Nazis who said they were "looking for arms," found none...
...disgruntled young men, smarting under the tyranny of I. A. & A., began to desert their posts and come to him by night. Soon he had a picked corps. Directors of I. A. & A. wanted no trouble with Knox, partly because of his fame (he was the Lindbergh-Edison-Einstein of his day) but mostly because they feared some threatening invention up his sleeve. Sure enough, Knox had discovered Motive Air: utilization of elements in the air itself to drive airplanes at a speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully guarded laboratory he had built more than 100 fighting...
General Motors men were overjoyed when, at a ceremonious Manhattan pre-showing of their stylish new Frigidaire (icebox) which "costs no more to run than one ordinary electric light bulb," Albert Einstein, on his way to Switzerland (instead of anti-Jew Germany) for the summer, got down on hands & knees to inspect the machine thoroughly, called it a "marvel," said it would be welcome in Europe where electricity is far dearer than...
Birthdays. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 92; Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 83; Adolph Simon Ochs. 75; Lillian D. Wald, 66; Albert Einstein...