Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short while ago Harvard University for the second time rejected an offer of a German scholarship from Ernst Hanfstaengl, or "Putzy" as the Columbia Spectator prefers to call the Nazi Press Chief, who has become renowned as the musician who soothes the worried Hitler to sleep...
Because the door donor was "too closely allied with a government which had interfered seriously with educational liberties," Harvard university has refused the $10,000 gift offered by Ernst Hanfstaengl, a Harvard alumnus and Nazi press chief. The gift was offered in response to a form letter sent out by the University to its alumni asking for assistance in the development of its national scholarships. This gift would make possible ten years of study at the University of Munich for American students. For the same reason, according to official announcements, the university administration last year refused a smaller gift from...
...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg [Vice Chancellor of Austria, TIME, Feb. 10| . . . likes his wine and his women. But no one has ever seen him indulge in the former to excess. He is much too anxious to curry favor for himself and Austria in foreign capitals to have so far forgotten himself at George's funeral. And I don't care where your information to the contrary came from. I have studied the subject too much not to know that this...
...scholarship is not upholding the tenets of liberalism, except in a very narrow sense; the refusal is doing nothing in itself to mitigate any probable abuses of scholastic facilities in Germany; but it does any to some student of limited means the opportunity to investigate those "abuses" for himself. Ernst W. Mueller...
Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...