Word: erich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...padded cell at Bellevue, to which he was rushed and in which he was photographed." He mailed the prints to friends as his Christmas card. Last year Mad Bob Carmichael sent his friends burlap bags full of ticker tape printed GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES GOOD WISHES. . . . Author Erich Maria Remarque of All Quiet on the Western Front, in refusing to see the cinema version of his book as shown at Paris, declared: "A sort of shame makes me refuse to see the acting anew of those atrocities of Wartime...
...cult of Wodan and the "Old Gods" of Germany supported by the General Erich Ludendorff, once an active Hitlerite, is of course a detestable heresy against God Almighty which every Catholic must resist. True, the Hitlerites of today are not Wodanites, but they are tainted with a suspicion of Wodanism in the ecclesiastic mind...
Under the head of "sustaining" programs (where the chain or the local station pays for the talent) are the 27 concerts to be broadcast (Columbia) by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Last week listeners heard Erich Kleiber, new Berlin conductor (TIME, Oct. 13). They will hear Arturo Toscanini in November, later Bernardino Molinari. Fortnight ago the Boston Symphony under Sergei Koussevitzky gave its first program exclusively for radio (N. B. C.) but the Boston Symphony will not broadcast regularly until Symphony Hall conditions are more favorable than they are now. The Metropolitan Opera continues to ignore radio. The Chicago Civic...
...spectacularly, but twice as sensational was the win of Brown. In the last Reichstag there was a "joke party" of twelve deputies, headed by Austrian-born Herr Adolf Hitler, crony of General Erich von Ludendorv with whom he spilled Bavarian blood in 1923 trying to stage a putsch (revolution). Scorned as a "wild man," this Fascist fanatic has been storming up and down depressed Germany, promising Prosperity if given enough votes to do two things: 1) replace Germany's "do nothing" Reichstag and President by a Dictator (presumably the "wild man"); 2) Repudiate Germany's obligations under the Young Plan...
...Hollywood in 1914, Erich von Stroheim was the symbolic Hun officer whom people at that time would pay to hate. It was rumored that he came of a noble Austrian family. His knowledge of European military technique and court etiquette seemed to bear out his claim that he had graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger. When Hun villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed...