Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Connecticut Yankees pitched into the Battle of Fredericksburg under stalwart Brigadier General Wilhelm Heine. Last week the denizens of Manhattan's cloak and suit district turned out with rubber razzberries and flaunting banners, to welcome the General's famed grandson. Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl came steaming in on the Europa with the reputation of being Adolf Hitler's strapping, eagle-browed soul mate. "Down with Hitler and his beast Hanfstaengl!" screamed swarthy members of the crowd of 1,500. "Ship the Hitler agent back! Down with Hanfstaengl...
After offering Harvard University $1,000 for a scholarship, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of Adolf Hitler, sailed from Germany to attend the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard. In his baggage were said to be busts of German Composer von Gluck, German Philosopher Schopenhauer, German President von Hindenburg...
...Party and finally to force Bis marck to back down. Though Germany's Protestant population is double its 20.000.000 Catholics, Adolf Hitler has shown no signs of personally attempting another Kulturkampj. Baptized a Catholic but no longer a practicing one, he has a good Catholic Vice Chancellor in Franz von Papen, whom he sent to Rome a year ago to wangle an agreement with the Holy Roman Church. The Concordat then signed looked good on paper. It recognized the religious rights of the Church and provided for full Catholic education of Catholic children. But Hitler let his young hotheads...
...with the Habsburg horse face, he stepped off the train from Switzerland at Vienna's West Station and looked into the faces of a notable company: the Minister of War. Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens-dorff-Pouilly and Pallavicini ("Imperial Highness!"); and the new arrival's cousin, the Archduke Anton and his wife Princess Ileana of Rumania. For it was the best beloved of the archdukes, old Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernard...
Glory-Seekers. Up into the stratosphere last week soared the Bartsch von Sigsfeld, biggest balloon in Germany. Aboard were Dr. Hermann Victor Masuch, meteorologist, and Dr. Franz Martin Schrenk, pilot. Their purpose was to rise 32,800 ft., study cosmic rays, bring glory to the Reich. Next day scientist, pilot and balloon were reported missing. Day after in Russia, near the Latvian border, was found the wreckage of the Bartsch von Sigsfeld. In it was Meteorologist Masuch, dead. Nine miles away lay Pilot Schrenk, also dead...