Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm from which Herbert H. Lehman resigned when he became Governor of New York. Robert attended Mercersburg Academy, did not go to college. In 1922 he shipped as a seaman on the S. S. St. Paul in a pair of white linen knickerbockers with $5 in cash. Landing in Hamburg at the height of the inflation, he changed his $5 for 115,000 marks, toured Germany on it, returned to the U. S. on the same ship and left in a tantrum when his discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later...
...suddenly wanted to know more about this stately youthful person who could act as well as sing. During her first years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures...
...William) Averell Harriman, son of late Railroadmaster Edward Henry Harriman. has in the past ventured to make a name for himself in the shipping business (Hamburg-American Line) and in air transportation (Aviation Corp.). He has at one time or another tried his hand at developing manganese concessions in Soviet Russia, zinc mines and public utilities in Poland. He still has his interest in one of Manhattan's big banking houses. But for several months his active interest has been the NRA which he has served as New York State NRAdministrator. Last week he got an NRA promotion, moved...
...private in the squad of onetime Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. True, when Ignatz and his family were stranded in Reading, Pa. the Chancellor replied to their plea for help by sending enough money to put Ignatz, Ignatz Jr., Frau Westenkirchner and their apple-cheeked daughters aboard the S. S. Hamburg (third class) for Germany (TIME, Jan. 1). But in the bustling Chancellery who was going to tell Adolf about Ignatz? Suddenly to their rescue went tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of the Chancellor (TIME...
Died. Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior, 62, German banker (M. M. Warburg & Co.) and reparations spokesman, onetime board vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements; of heart disease and arteriosclerosis; in Hamburg...