Word: franz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...
Maluf cited the late Franz Werfel, author of "The Song of Bernadette," as an example of someone who had investigated the Church and had publicly admitted that its doctrines were the primary influence of his life, and who had never been baptized a Catholic. Maluf said Werfel must be in hell unless he was baptized on his death...
When five-year-old Janie Franz turned up in Philadelphia last week, a day after she had been kidnaped from Trenton, the Associated Press solemnly surveyed the geography of the case and told how her father took the good news: " 'I'd run all the way to Philadelphia to get her back,' he said." Added the literal-minded A.P.: "The two cities are 35 miles apart...
...Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
...arrived at the converted CCC barracks near the Trapp Farm for the first of four summer "Sing Weeks." They paid from $70 to $90 apiece for ten days' board & room and the chance to study church music and folk songs with the Trapps and their music director, Father Franz Wasner, who is also the family chaplain...