Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with its growing population at work and enjoying its new leisure, gave a quick but comprehensive review of the nation's burgeoning market. In" nine cities scattered through the Rhineland, the Ruhr and northwest Germany, industrialists and businessmen found it a fascinating report. After seeing it first in Frankfurt, business leaders asked for copies of the color slides for showings in every Chamber of Commerce in West Germany...
...area where a greased palm overrules a handshake, such treachery is normal . . . H. B. SHIELDS Frankfurt, Germany...
Tillich was fired from his job at the University of Frankfurt by Nazi officials in 1933. He cites his book, Socialist Decision, a work highly critical of the Nazi government, as the reason for his dismissal. "I then left Germany for many reasons," Tillich said, "but the most important was because of the Fascist's enmity against any self-surrendering love towards the Cross of Christ...
...ecstatically" a sympathy with the cause of social revolution. This feeling led him, during the twenties, to participate actively in political affairs. Meanwhile, he held several chairs of theology and philosophy, and developed his interests in psychology, the visual arts, and existentialism. In January, 1933, at the University of Frankfurt, he one day gave a lecture entitled "Heil Hitler," in which he analyzed the psychological appeal of the rising Nazi party. The next day Hitler came to power, and Tillich, fired immediately, took refuge on an island off the coast of Denmark...
...crowds of West Germans circulating amidst the gleaming chromium and tingling scent of new leather at Frankfurt's 37th International Automobile Show last week, there was much to be proud of. Flashy B.M.W.'s and new models of such prewar favorites as the Mercedes showed plainly why the revived German automobile industry is gobbling up more and more (21.6%) of the world's export markets...