Word: fled
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Editor George was himself a refugee. He fled Germany in 1933, arrived almost penniless in the U.S. in 1938, got a $15-a-month job editing Aufbau, then a four-page monthly put out by New York's German Jewish Club (now the New World Club, it still owns Aufbau). George turned Aufbau into a weekly, built up circulation by offering its subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed...
Died. Julian Ulrych, 71, quiet, self-effacing, $20.44-a-week London hotel dishwasher, a powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...
...pungent effort was the Generalregulativ, a book of rules that established the Fuehrerprinzip at Krupp's a good half century before der Fuehrer. Alfred dictated his workers' lives down to prescribing their off-duty shoes (wooden clogs). His wife took 25 years of the same niggling, then fled. When he died, Alfred left behind him more than 30,000 interoffice memos...
What Is the Answer? As young U.S. expatriates (including Ernest Hemingway) fled the middle class and the Middle West, they took refuge in "the mature Gertrudian bosom," as Van Wyck Brooks put it, "much like that of their far away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein gave them back their nursery rhymes and they had fine babbling times together." As for for own writing, apart from a trio of impressive short stories, Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and the moving play-opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein was not so much...
...Ukrainian populace to fight the advancing Russians, Bandera set up headquarters in Berlin, while Ukrainian partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice-lord for suppressing the Ukrainians: Nikita...