Word: heil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general secretary of the German Red Cross, escaped Nazi Storm Troopers by jumping out the rear window of his office and fleeing to Warsaw. Spiegel himself remained in Berlin, until he became involved in a violent fight with the son of a Nazi leader for refusing to give the "Heil, Hitler" salute. In the fight the other boy suffered a fractured skull, and Spiegel had to flee to France, where he graduate from the University of Nancy...
Crusty Director Heil, who had already made himself famous by gathering the bang-up art exhibitions of San Francisco's World's Fair, was noted in the U. S. art world for his determination. For a year he negotiated, first with Paris, then with the Vichy Government, guaranteed shipment costs, promised to keep the collection safe until the war was over. Last October he managed to get the pictures from Buenos Aires as far as New York, where they were promptly frozen as part of the assets of France. Stymied, Director Heil started sending letters to Congressmen, even...
Just before World War II, Rene Huyghe, head of the Louvre's department of painting, gathered together a huge exhibition of the art of the French Republic, from David to Picasso. Director Huyghe sent his exhibition to South America. Bushy-eyebrowed, German-born Walter Heil of San Francisco's M. H. De Young Memorial Museum heard about it, decided...
...Tanguys, recognized many famed pictures (Ingres' Turkish Bath, Millet's Shepherdess Tending her Flock, Gérard's Madame Recamier, Delacroix's Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi}. Meanwhile gallery directors all over the U. S. tumbled over themselves to negotiate with Director Heil for a loan of his big French show after San Francisco is through with...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...