Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week for the inspection of Hon. Mr. Justice Swift. After scrutinizing it with care, His Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy...
KARL MARX-Franz Mehring-Covici, Friede...
Association with these two enterprising newspapermen proved helpful after the German revolution had been suppressed and Marx was living in exile in London. U. S. readers of Franz Mehring's biography are likely to be surprised at the number of close connections that Marx and Engels maintained with the U. S., to learn that some of Marx's most important works were first published in New York. Living in London, with a well-bred wife and four children to support. Marx's only certain income was the two or four pounds a week he received as foreign...
...Although Franz Mehring writes in detail of Marx's opinions on the U. S. Civil War, readers who know The Education of Henry Adams may be disappointed with his account. In that book Henry Adams describes how his father, Charles Francis Adams, then Minister to England, successfully prevented English intervention on the side of the Confederacy, pays a tribute to Marx and the First International for having swung English public opinion to the Northern cause...
...story: Socialite Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, onetime German Chancellor and now Minister to Austria, recently prepared a list of Austrian Nazis "who would be acceptable to Realmleader Hitler as the Cabinet of Austria." Such an act was irregular in the extreme, since Nazis and their movement are outlawed in Austria. But von Papen had his orders from Berlin and Adolf Hitler is Austrian-born. Armed with this list, top-hatted, tail-coated Diplomat von Papen arrived at Austria's famed Ballhaus ("White House"), heavy with historic memories of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna. Very small...