Word: essen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German press considered the speech a masterpiece. Deeds, no longer words, would be the order. The Essen National Zeitung gloated: "The moment has come in which the war desired by England must rain down in full force upon the British Isles themselves." But early this week precipitation...
...French (and probably British) bombers visited over Germany's industrial Ruhr and steel mills at Essen, apparently to test their defenses. No details...
...hope for a 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...
...flights to France; reassuring to French householders who saw the planes descend to 3,000 feet to give them a better look; cheering to Englishmen, who were informed by their newspapers that an equidistant flight over Germany would have taken the planes past Berlin, Hamburg, the Krupp works at Essen; irritating to Germans, whose newspapers screamed "war-mongering." Before popular enthusiasm for the performance ebbed, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented the House of Commons with the bill-not for the flight alone, but for British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized. In his low and unemotional...
...Editor Alfred M. Frankfurter of the U. S. Art News) was $39,400 for the famous van Gogh Self Portrait which used to hang in the State Gallery at Munich. Manhattan Dealer Pierre Matisse paid $945 for his famed father's Three Women, from the Folk Museum at Essen. Principal acquisitions of the Franco-Dutch cartel were Picasso's Soler Family (1903), from Koln, Two Harlequins (1905), from Wuppertal-Elberfeld...