Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Captain Karl Boy-Ed, 58, one-time naval attaché at the German Embassy in Washington; by a fall from his horse; at his estate Groenwoldhof, near Hamburg. In 1915 the U. S. forced his withdrawal when he became suspect of fomenting rebellion in Mexico and thus distracting the U. S. from the War. The then Kaiser rewarded him with the order of the Red Eagle. In 1921 he married Virginia Mackay Smith, daughter of the late Episcopal Bishop Smith Mackay of Pennsylvania...
...plane and its crew flew on to Chicago for the national air races (see p. 47). With them as interpreter went their homeland friend, Fraulein Hertha Seelemann-Mirow, a pilot of the aviation department of the Hamburg-American Line. The return to Germany will be by steamer...
...German diplomacy through pointing, jeering crowds in the streets of La Paz. Leaving behind them the General, with cries for his head still ringing in their ears, they fled by motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Fraülein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible place. One day it is 'Viva General Kundt.' The next day it is 'Abatto! Abatto!'* ... A man gets tired of war sometimes...
...interests, the company will establish next June the first direct trans-Atlantic passenger service out of Baltimore since the War. Freight and mail (the company has an encouraging governmental mail contract) will be the most important revenue sources. The company will operate five oil-burning ships between Baltimore and Hamburg, must build others to hold its mail contract. These the U. S. Shipping Board, pleased at Baltimore's maritime enterprise, sold for $30,000 apiece; went further last week and awarded Baltimore Mail a generous loan ($6,540,000 at 3%) to be used for reconditioning the ships...
Just 50 miles from New York in Hamburg, N. J., the gates of the Wheatsworth factory grounds were thrown open and hundreds of wide-eyed children clambered excitedly through one of the strangest houses ever built. It is a poured-stone structure on the foundations of an old cement kiln. Its sparkling roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret...