Word: georg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team faces no college competition until February, when Von Stade will have returned to the fold. Other standouts on the squad are Ben Dillingham, Georg Duff, and Gordon Schall...
...Atop Wertheim's department store in Berlin a brand-new Swastika flag flew triumphantly. It was a signal that this Jewish firm was now completely "Aryan." The firm's top men, Jew Georg Wertheim. Jew Fritz Sternberg, had been removed on Government orders...
...flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon. In Switzerland Kay and her companions have time to try everything from fancy skating, for which Claudette Colbert reveals unsuspected talent, to falling off a bob-sled...
CRUISE OF THE CONRAD-Alan Villiers -Scribner ($3-75) Three years ago in Copenhagen as he stood watching the 52-year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon...
Great is the name that President Roebling bears in Trenton. John Augustus Roebling, engineer, musician, favorite pupil of Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, laid the first plans for the Brooklyn Bridge. After the Civil War he and his son, the late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling...