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...Taft's Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912. He resigned from Cornell in 1920, was appointed Harding's Minister to China in 1921. As Coolidge's Ambassador to Germany he plumped hard for its rehabilitation, raised $500,000 among U.S. citizens to build a new Heidelberg University building, which was named after him. Revisiting Germany in 1936, he observed a significant alteration in Schurman Hall: Nazis had removed the facade inscription "To the Eternal Spirit," substituted a gold swastika and "To the German Spirit...
Political Scientist Friedrich has seen history made both in the U.S. and in Germany. He came to the U.S. in the middle '20s after receiving a Ph.D. from Heidelberg, gave lectures at Harvard and decided to stay. In London in 1935 he became fascinated by Parliamentary debates about BBC and by radio in general. Partly aided by a Rockefeller grant which expires this month, yellow-haired, big-domed Professor Friedrich has given five years of study to radio politics-five years in which his contempt for Naziism and Nazi "indoctrination" methods (indebted to the Creel Committee, as Goebbels used...
Emergence. Marseille studied psychology at Heidelberg and Berlin, got his Ph.D. in 1926 for a critical study of graphological theories, later practiced in Berlin and Vienna as consulting psychologist and personnel adviser for public-utility and industrial corporations. He left Austria on the eve of the Nazi invasion. In 1940 Paul Lazarsfeld, public-opinion researcher, retained him to make a handwriting analysis of mail received by several U.S. Senators during the debate on the conscription bill. His educational rating of the letter-writers (later checked by interviewers) attracted the attention of FORTUNE'S Elmo Roper, who is also...
...answered me in German. In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English. Of English books it had almost none. Most of its stock was German of pre-war origin. It had picture postcards of Swakop mund and Windhoek, and of Hamburg and Heidelberg...
...know or recognize truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." The author of this statement, Dr. Ernst Krieck, is rector of Heidelberg. Between 1933-38 university enrollment dropped from 200,000 to just over 70,000. A worried military gazette reported: "Cadets show a striking inability to think logically...