Word: hermann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built the Metropolitan, established it as Society's showplace. Great singers long dead seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate attempt to save...
Engaged. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, 42, No. 2 Nazi. President of the Reichstag, Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls...
Professor Hermann A. Korff Kune Francke Professor of German Art and Culture will give six public lectures in German at the Germanic Museum on Tuesday at 4.30 o'clock beginning March...
...Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West Point Cadets. Most of the innumerable Nazi uniforms sprang from the fertile brain of Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Lieut-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- Powell, authority on pig-sticking and defender of Mafeking, designed the uniforms of the Boy Scouts...
...rural, intensely Catholic Bavaria last week Staatsminister Hermann Esser decreed that during the carnival preceding Lent there shall be no Nazi saluting. Since handshaking has become "counterrevolutionary" in Nazidom, Herr Esser decreed that in carnival the proper greeting is to place one's right hand over the heart...