Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...
...over Germany similar pyres blazed with similar books. In the Romerberg, Frankfurt's medieval marketplace, a band played Chopin's Funeral March during the firing. In Munich only 100 books were burned, yanked from the shelves of the University library. Breslau boasted that it burned 5,000 Ib. of heretical works, Kiel burned 2,000 volumes...
Lest the world grow too optimistic about German prospects, blunt Dr. Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, cautioned citizens of Frankfurt-am-Main last week...
Strassburger Prize Sirs: A jury composed of Professor Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Jakob Wassermann, representing the German branch of the Strassburger Foundation has awarded the annual prize of the Foundation for 1932 to Walther Reinhardt, German Consul in Seattle, Wash., for his book George Washington, published in Frankfurt am Rhein. The object of the Strassburger Foundation is to further good relations between the U. S. and several European countries. It has branches in France, Germany, Austria and Hungary. Its French jury is composed of Andre Maurois, M. Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador to Berlin, and others. Annual prizes...
...Cleveland, where the New York architects, Clauss and Daub have made a venture. An art Guild Hall in Darien, Connecticut, is an example of the latest developments carried out on a large scale. In Berlin, prominent residences are done in the chaste modern style. In Soviet Russia, and near Frankfurt, simple modern tenements are housing poor people. Nor is the use confined to business buildings or residences. A newspaper plant, a grain elevator, and a paper mill have invested in modern buildings. Einstein's laboratory, a Paris garage, a dentist's office and many salons of the S.S. Bremen have...