Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at 70 the most useful of Jay Gould's unusual children died. Her admirers turned their eyes towards New York University's Hall of Fame. She endowed...
...party's first mass meeting took place in Munich in February 1920. The leader intended to participate in a monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided the party with dead martyrs, landed Herr Hitler in jail. His incarceration at Landsberg Fortress gave him time to write the first volume of Mein Kampf, now a "must" on every German bookshelf...
Outlawed in many German districts, the National Socialist Party nevertheless climbed steadily in membership. Time-honored Tammany Hall methods of handing out many small favors were combined with rowdy terrorism and lurid, patriotic propaganda. The picture of a mystic, abstemious, charismatic Führer was assiduously cultivated...
Before an audience of 1,000 socialites in Manhattan's Town Hall, Professor John Erskine gave a lecture on "The Rise of Jazz and Swing." Swingmaster Benny Goodman & band came along to show how it was done, had some of the audience bouncing in their seats, the rest embarrassed. Swing-Scholar Erskine summed up with a slogan: "Bach plus swing equals vitality...
Obediently Arthur Fuller trotted down the hall into the operating room. On a table lay a woman, swathed in white sheets, who Arthur Fuller assumed was his mother. Dr. Schroeder assumed that Arthur Fuller was the Type IV donor he wanted. He pumped Arthur Fuller's Type II blood into Mrs. Hayden's Type IV veins. In a few hours she was dead...