Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the opening talks and the discussion that followed, three of the speakers attempted to qualify or refute the contentions of Ludwig Lewisohn, German author, critic, and currently professor of English at Brandeis University. The three were: Bernard De Vote '13, Elizabeth Janeway, and Roger Burlingame...
Lewisohn, now a professor of Comparative Literature at Brandeis University, is the author of several novels and many critical works. His latest book was "Goethe: The Story of a Man," which was published last spring among the spate of volumes issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the German genius' birth...
...head of Pacific Coast Longshoremen, who is under Federal indictment for using improper methods in obtaining citizenship in 1945. At that time the government tried to deport Bridges, but the Supreme Court found that the District Attorney did not prove his accusation--Bridges was not a Communist. Two former German Bund leaders, Fritz Kuhn, and August Klaprott, and one of Al Capone's old assistants, Anthony Volpe, may also have their cases reviewed this session. Though the Court crossed the case of Gerhardt Eisler off its agenda in June, it must also do something about the "Number...
...Twelve German men and women began a year's study at the Graduate School of Public Administration last week, under the auspices of the U.S. military government in Germany...
...Russians are producing plutonium, they have really learned the atomic trade, perhaps with the help of German scientists. Once they accumulated enough fissionable material (U-235 or plutonium), it should not have been hard to make an atomic bomb. In quantities below a certain amount (the "critical mass," sometimes estimated at around 26 lbs.), neither material will explode. But when two such masses are brought together, forming more than a "critical mass," they explode spontaneously...