Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew the Atlantic in 1927, no one was more excited than a large lady who lives on Manhattan's Park Avenue and keeps a vast collection of aeronauticana. The Park Avenue lady proceeded to surround herself with Lindbergh portraits. She owns a cup & saucer used on the first Graf Zeppelin flight. Her name is Bella Landauer and she is the wife of Isidor Nathan Landauer who makes Sealpacker-chiefs. Last week at Manhattan's Old Print Shop Mrs. Landauer exhibited one of her prize possessions-a collection of aeronautical songs...
Last barrier to commercial aviation is that vast body of salt water which the ancient Greeks called Ocean. To conquer it has long been the goal of many nations. First step was taken by Germany in the South Atlantic with her Graf Zeppelin and mail planes refueled by a ship anchored in midocean. Next summer Germany will launch a North Atlantic shuttle for mail & passengers with tne Graf's big sister, Hindenburg (LZ-129), and Pan American Airways will send its giant super-clipper ships experimentally across the Pacific. But by last week it became evident that the first...
Speakers lined up by Dr. Goebbels to campaign for "My Leader" this week: Col. Oscar von Hindenburg; the Graf Zeppelin's Dr. Hugo Eckener; Wilhelm II's Nazi son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm; German Olympic Games Heroes Hans Sievert (world's decathlon record holder) and Otto Peltzer (sprinter) ; Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. For the first time newsorgans announced that Adolf Hitler will speak not to the German people but to "his people...
Berlin seethed with Nazi bloodshed but on St. Vitus Day all German flags went to half mast. Quietly at Wilhelmshaven the third of Germany's famed 10,000-ton "pocket battleships," the Admiral Graf von Spee, with six nin. guns, was launched and hailed by the Fatherland's Press as "unmatched in battle power for her size." Chancellor Hitler, just before the Nazi revolt broke, inspected the great Krupp works at Esse-n. Instead of passing this off as a trivial event. Publisher Hitler's personal news-organ covered its entire front page with militant pictures from...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news...