Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newsworthy are the facts that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen's appointment drew condemnation from nearly every German party, including his own Catholic Party, which turned against him. Nevertheless TIME said: "In Washington, where von Papen was German Military Attache when the War opened, both [his wife] and he were popular. . . . Evidence against von Papen was supplied chiefly by British operatives, perhaps not above crediting falsehoods against a German in time of war" (TIME, July 4). As Chancellor, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen has never yet dared to face the Reichstag, knowing that his "Cabinet of Monocles" would meet...
...House, President von Hindenburg's comfortable, unpretentious summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia a solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
Enemies of Thomas Bat'a called him a Wartime profiteer. Certainly the marching feet of Kaiser Franz Josef's men wore out millions of Bat'a shoes. After the feet ceased to march and the Austrian Empire collapsed Thomas Bat'a took his profits across the Atlantic, opened a shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, in 1922, learned all the tricks of Fordized technique. When the new Czechoslovakian Republic had been safely launched, Mr. Bat'a moved the machinery of his Lynn factory to Zlin...
Love?"one great surging, longing, unmistakable urge"?came to Isadora Duncan in Budapest in springtime. She met an actor whom in her later memoirs she called "Romeo."* Out of this awakening came a dance she improvised to Franz Schubert's gentle, tripping Moment Musical. Isadora Duncan has been dead five years, but a Manhattan audience last week gave its lustiest applause to her memory when the Moment Musical was danced once more by her adopted daughter Irma...
When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days...