Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Funeral services for Edward Edwin Euler '24, instructor in the Department of German, who died Wednesday evening, will be held tomorrow morning at his home, 129 N. Seventh Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York, Mr. Euler left the University on account of his health before Christmas and went to the South to recuperate...
...established piano factories nearly all are running part time, with thousands of skilled workmen laid off or reduced to making radios. Four years ago the British Isles were buying 22,000 German pianos annually. With the enactment of the McKenna tariff that figure has fallen to a mere 1500 in 1928. Similar tariff enactments by other countries have cut German piano exports from...
Even more disheartening is the fact that today the German piano tycoons stand clearly defeated, after a two-year battle with "sales resistance" in Germany itself. The offensive began in 1926. Only 45,000 pianos had been sold to Germans in 1926, as against 60,000 in other years. The tycoons were scared. Therefore they organized an "American Campaign" of high-pressure salesmanship, something unprecedented in the Reich. Salesmen rambled through the countryside with trucks full of pianos, selling and delivering on the spot, selling on credit, shouting, pleading, browbeating...
Nonpartisanship was almost a mania with General Manager Stone. If he had political opinions, no one else in the Associated Press knew them. When his son Herbert went down with the German-torpedoed Lusitania, he insisted on A. P. neutrality...
...Professor is not the swift motivated story one might expect from so incisive a dramatist as Sudermann. Rather it is a leisurely commentary on German University life, with its Bismarckian politics, Junker fraternities, duels and drinking bouts - everything, in. short, but intellectualism. To point the narrative Sudermann projects a philosophical genius into the stolid pussyfooting faculty, and predicates the dangerous futility of his in dependent thinking. That Professor Sieburth should have independent ideas strikes the faculty as bad enough, but that he should live his ideas is intolerable...