Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five; theatres shut down for two minutes at 11 p. m. for an official news broadcast and the national anthem; bullfights are suspended half way through for cheers for Franco, the anthem and the fascist salute-a ceremony that has much in common with humorless Italian and German leader-worship, and more in common with the seventh-inning stretch...
...tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian spectators, resenting the appearance of Menzel on the German team, booed "Back to Sudetenland!", raised such a rumpus that the Germans hired a bodyguard to protect their Anschlussed star. By winning the European Zone Final, Yugoslavia qualified to meet Australia (unless Australia loses to Cuba) in the Interzone Final at Boston, August...
...racialism bothered the congress little, nationalism caused it some trouble. Most of the "messengers" were for telling off Hitler and Mussolini. Thereupon a German Baptist bitterly accused the congress of not understanding Germany, while an Italian defended Il Duce as Baptism's protector against the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Rushbrooke, with no particular national ax to grind, made a speech which further suggested that, in Europe, religious minorities like the Baptists try to play off governments against established churches. He blamed "the sinister figure of the priest," rather than King Carol, for Baptist troubles in Rumania. He paid...
Born. To Dr. Anton Lang, Georgetown University German professor and son of the late, saintly Oberammergau Passion Play Christus, who died last year, and Klara Mayr Lang, onetime Oberammergau Magdalene; a son, their third child; in Washington, D. C. Name: Anton Lang...
Last week all Europe was excited about the propaganda battle between England's Commander Stephen King-Hall and Germany's Paul Joseph Goebbels (TIME, July 31). As Commander King-Hall's fourth letter to his "dear German readers" reached Germany, Britishers received in their morning mail copies of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled News From Germany. Published by Dr. Goebbels' good friend H. R. Hoffmann of Starnberg, News From Germany bears beneath its masthead the motto...