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...addition to the Fellows, and the Faculty Committee in charge of the Nieman work, MacLeish invites members of the faculty who might be interested in the field under discussion. Tonight ex-Chancellor of Germany, Heinrich Bruening, will be at the dinner...
...flight tax was originally imposed during the economic crisis in 1931 by former Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning to shut off the flow of German capital abroad. Dr. Brüning, lecturer in government at Harvard, steers clear of Germany today and recently was reported visiting in London with his old friend, Winston Churchill, but his flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish...
Eleven research seminars will be conducted at the new school during the year by prominent Harvard professors in government, economics, and business. Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of the German republic, will have a group on "Government Regulation of Industry." Among the other subjects taken up will be "Agricultural, Forestry, and Land Policy," "Economics of Collective Bargaining;" "Federal Administration;" "The Legislative Process;" and Price Policies...
...from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...
...winter of 1907, Manhattan had its most celebrated operatic scandal. Critics scolded, pulpits seethed. The solemn, stiff-collared directors of the Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less...