Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestant pastors quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the trial at Darmstadt of 29 members of a sect called Ernst Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Searchers). Their crime was that they take orders only from God, believe that all man-made laws and governments are the work of Satan. In this they include the Nazi State. Police told them months ago to disband. They did not. They were arrested. But their treason was so huge and vague that even Nazi law could not touch them and they were acquitted...
When the marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909 began sending out invitations last month to 1909's 25th Reunion in June he came upon the name Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. Few Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers...
...GERMAN-Ernst Toller-Morrow ($2.75). Autobiography of a Socialist playwright and Jew, now in exile...
...attention last week to talk of a Habsburg restoration. A political move in which they were more willing to believe was the possible establishment of a Regency for Austria on the model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois...
...want Bergner! We don't want Jewish actresses-the Judah of Paris!" More eggs spattered on placards and against the lights. Finally, just when it looked as if the affair would turn into one of the worst riots of the Third Reich. Nazi Commander Ernst Roehm of the Berlin Storm Troops persuaded the mob to quiet down. Reenforcements of police blocked the street at both ends, dispersed the crowd before the audience, which waited inside ten minutes to cheer Cinemactress Bergner, emerged. Next day the real significance of the disturbance became apparent. Catherine the Great, which had been passed...