Word: hosteler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lisbon, Spanish Pretender Don Juan hit the ceiling of his modest Portuguese hostel. Generalissimo Francisco Franco had propositioned him. The proposition (conveyed by Franco's brother Nicolas, who is Spain's Ambassador to Lisbon): Don Juan's eldest son, 9, should be handed over to the Franco Government to be trained in the principles of "the new Spanish order." Thus the dynasty would serve as a front for Franco, and the princeling would serve as a hostage if the dynasty became troublesome...
...hundred of them from the American Youth Hostel, Inc. had sailed from New York in June on the Ernie Pyle. They carried plenty of food because they didn't want to be a burden. They took few clothes, because they were going over to work. They were setting out to help rebuild Europe's youth hostels, damaged...
When they weren't building, plastering or painting, the Americans cycled around the countryside, doing odd jobs wherever they stopped. In Paris 30 hostelers were invited to Schiaparelli's for tea, showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
Schoolteacher Schirrmann set up the first hostel in an old castle in Altena, Germany, in 1910. By 1930 Germany had 2,000 hostels (one aboard a ship in Hamburg's harbor). When war came, there were 5,000 hostels in 20 nations...
...last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept. 23), Faber was ready to take its little niche in journalistic history with such legendary press camps as Paris' Hotel Scribe, the mud-&-stone Press Hostel in Chungking...