Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected that this news alone would be sufficient to force Col. Düsterberg's resignation. Not so; the Stahlhelm rallied round their leader with a proud announcement from their Berlin commander. Major Franz von Stephani: "The Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds." The opinion of Major von Stephani was not the only thing to change in Germany in eight months. Last week Major von Stephani called at Stahlhelm headquarters and bluntly told Col. Düsterberg that...
...Majestic every year. Along with a group of others that belong to a golden period in stage history, "The Student Prince," "The Prince of Pilsen," "The Red Mill," and "The Chocolate Soldier," the current attraction at the Majestic has captured a wisp of sentiment in the life of Franz Schubert, transplanted it into Vienna in April, woven around it Romberg's adaptations from the "Moonlight Sonata," "The Unfinished Symphony" and lighter tunes, and prettified the whole with gay beaus, 1820 hats, Mitzi, Fritzi, Kitzi, wine and outdoor cafes...
Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...
Religion. Over the Alps to Italy went Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen last week. He had just lost a month-long backstage battle for the last important German post not controlled by Nazis, the Premiership of Prussia. Adolf Hitler, making himself statthalter for Prussia, was about to confer the Premiership on his most active assistant, Capt. Hermann Goring, and that same Capt. Goring was about to set out for Italy to join Col. von Papen, whose job there was twofold: 1) to prepare the way for a later visit to Italy from Handsome Adolf himself; 2) as a good Catholic...
...other great New York brewer was and is Jacob Ruppert. His Grandfather Franz had a brewery in Manhattan in 1850; his father, the elder Jake, learned brewing from the time he was ten and started a separate brewery of his own. The younger Jake was also brought up in the brewery, became one of the dandies of New York, a stalwart of Tammany (eight years in Congress), was made Colonel by New York's Governor. Father & son worked hand in hand. They had a house on Fifth Avenue. In 1913 they built themselves a brand...