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...ornate baroque palace of the prince-bishops at Fulda, 45 German Catholic bishops met last week in accordance with the will of the Vatican. In solemn conclave the bishops agreed, according to the German News Agency, that...
Death Revealed. Ludwig Fulda, 77, famed German dramatist, novelist, poet, translator; in Berlin last month. Before the World War Fulda lectured in the U. S. as an exponent of German culture. Recently Nazis forced him to change his name to Ludwig Israel Fulda. Because he was a Jew, the Aryan press did not even report his death...
...that Adolf Hitler, just now more attracted than ever by Nazi schemes of launching a war to wipe Bolshevism out of Russia, was prepared to take at something like face value overtures of aid made to Der Führer last week by German cardinals and bishops meeting at Fulda with a legate from the Pope...
Primitive peoples believed that evil spirits carried diseases. Hebrews and Greeks proved that cleanliness protected them from many ailments. In the Middle Ages doctors ascribed to various invisible contagia the causes of diseases. In 1658 by means of a simple microscope Athanasius Kircher of Fulda, Germany, saw "worms" in the blood of people stricken with Black Plague. Those probably were the first germs ever noted. As microscopes were improved more kinds of animalcula were observed, and doctors gradually associated them with disease. But not until 1876 was a germ proved to be a cause of a disease. The disease: anthrax...
...activities of the Verein have been varied. It has presented the late actor and reader, Max Montor, in a group of readings from German plays, has staged Schuitzler's "Liebelet" and "Dor gruene Kakadu," and Fulda's Jugendfreunde," with the collaboration of the German clubs of Wellesley and Radcliffe...