Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus a complete break last August-at which time Adolf Hitler had been called in only to be asked by the President whether he would enter and support the "Cabinet of Monocles" headed by Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. With dejected, hangdog mien Der Osaf left Der Reichspräsident...
...organ closest to Chancellor von Schleicher. carried surprising news of a conference in Cologne the night before between two Germans who a few weeks ago were bitter foes and have since been shelved by the sure, soft hand of the Chancellor. The former foes, Adolf Hitler and ex-Chancellor Franz von Papen, conferred for an hour and a half. According to the plot-hatching Chancellor's own newspaper, they conferred for the purpose of hatching a plot to oust von Schleicher...
Johns Hopkins' Pharmacologist John Jacob Abel, 75, assumed the A. A. A. S. presidency, succeeding Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas, 74. For 1934 president the Association chose Princeton's Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, 55, after he had presented his interpretation of starlight. The light might be the effect of 1) hydrogen and the lighter elements synthesizing into heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough...
...proud old Theater an der Wien last week a story was enacted which every good Viennese knows: the courtship of young Emperor Franz Josef and Elizabeth, 16-year-old, harum-scarum daughter of Bavaria's Duke Max. Elizabeth, whose nickname was Sissy, was the favorite of her father who roved the forests with woodcutter friends, played the zither, behaved more like a peasant than a duke. Sissy's shrewish mother intended the elder daughter Helene to be Franz Josef's wife. Sissy went along with them when the Bavarian duchess took Helene to Ischl to meet...
Following Belgian Artist Franz Masereel, Lynd Ward's Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) was the first U. S. novel-in-woodcuts. A few titles to sections helped keep readers' fingers on the story's thread. Wild Pilgrimage, his third woodcut "novel," must be "read" without benefit of caption or title, but it tells so straightforward a story that no clues are needed. Artist Ward adopts one innovation: pictures printed in black show the events of the narrative; in red, what the hero is thinking...