Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be able to afford the change, because its parent Radio Corporation of America owns the biggest recording outfit in the U. S. Yet in its time, NBC has okayed only one network recording (the Hindenburg disaster). Last week, however, NBC stepped bravely out. Henceforth Canada Dry's Information Please, staged in Manhattan's Radio City on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 9 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time, will be recorded by Los Angeles' KECA instead of being immediately broadcast when it reaches the West coast at 4:30 Pacific Standard Time. The recording will then...
...Joffre was kicked upstairs as early as 1916 and General Foch was bitterly criticized for misjudging enemy strength and strategy. The British high command shifted from Sir John French to Sir Douglas Haig. The Germans fired Moltke, then tried Falkenhayn and finally brought from the East old Paul von Hindenburg, who lost his war. But a few younger men in secondary posts came through the ordeal with reputations not only untarnished but so brightened that now, a quarter of a century after Armageddon 1914-18, it is they to whom their countrymen have given their arms to command...
...While he was consul at Seattle, the Strassburger Foundation to further U. S.-German friendship awarded its $1,000 prize to his terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
...Ambassador has had many narrow escapes, the closest being in the 1934 Nazi purge, when only President von Hindenburg's protection and friendship saved him from assassination. Friends and associates have not been so lucky. His political supporters were wiped out in the purge and the body of the man who was his secretary in Austria was found floating in the Danube two months after Anschluss...
...days. The Miiller Government, socialist and conciliatory, gave way to the Bruning Government. In the Reichstag election the Nazis gained 107 seats, 6,401,200 votes (out of a total of 35,000,000). Hitler was no longer a rival of von Papen, von Schleicher, Bruning, but of Hindenburg himself. The Bruning Government ruled by decree, the von Papen ministry lasted 170 days, was followed by the von Schleicher ministry that lasted 56. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany...