Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamburg is a seaport 75 miles from the sea. Altona is to Hamburg as Camden is to Philadelphia, a swarming, separately administered suburb on the River (Elbe). In Altona are workingmen's flats, deserted factories, ramshackle athletic clubs, empty lots cut up into thousands of little gardens each with a tool shed, many with a flagpole and a red Communist flag. Late last Sunday afternoon good citizens in Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined...
...through Red Altona. Altona Communists betook themselves to the housetops. Suddenly a burst of rifle & pistol fire poured down into the Fascist parade. Brownshirts broke ranks, dashed into the houses to attack the snipers. Altona's hopelessly outnumbered police force signalled loudly for help. Even with reinforcements from Hamburg, rioting continued until after midnight. Armored cars blazed away ruthlessly. Police attacked with rifle, pistol, hand grenade, tear gas. Communists swarmed out of their tenements and tried to build barricades. Five dead bodies were picked up in the streets. From all over Hamburg doctors were called away from their homes...
...upon death of husband to estate appraised at about $100,000,000." In 1916 he resigned a Union Pacific vice-presidency to enter the shipbuilding field. Later he formed American Ship & Commerce Corp., an ambitious scheme for international trade. In 1926 the company sold most of its vessels to Hamburg-American and is still liquidating its shipbuilding and heavy machinery business. Mr. Harriman is a director also of American Hawaiian Steamship...
Latins, not Teutons, are supposed to stab each other but there was knife work aplenty in German streets last week. Stabbed, a Hamburg policeman died after two nights of agony. Stabbed in the heart at Essen, a young Fascist died on the spot Meanwhile in Cologne police beat off Fascists who bludgeoned them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling...
Vienna is the most suicidal city on earth?58 per 100,000 (1930 figures). Next rank Hamburg 51.1, Shanghai (foreign settlement) 46.6, Berlin 42.2, Brussels 40.9. Havana 38.3, Budapest 35.7, Leningrad 35.3, Warsaw...