Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best-selling Only Yesterday. Cinematically it examines the state of the Union since 1917. These are some of the scenes of the nation's follies and accomplishments in the past 15 years: Front pages screaming WAR. Women knitting, soldiers tramping, Charlie Chaplin selling Liberty Bonds. Swat the Kaiser. Kill the Hun. Ships, ships, ships. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." The Armistice. The boys come marching home, and the men go marching out of mines and factories suddenly idle. A Paterson police chief, fat and funny, directs his men as they throw women textile workers into a patrol wagon. "Reds" await...
Falling safety bars at a railway crossing between Amsterdam and Haarlem struck an automobile bearing ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. In time's nick his chauffeur inched the car out of the way of a hurtling locomotive...
Three days later Chancellor Hitler's personal newspaper, Der Volkischer Beobachter, sounded a German call to Empire worthy of rash Kaiser Wilhelm II. "The great events that expand the scope of history," said the Chancellor's organ, "take place upon the sea. It is the sea that creates world powers." Praising present-day German pocket battleships as superior to foreign fighting craft. Herr Hitler's paper cried: "We need not be anxious! . . . Today, modern naval tactics enable Germans, with their superior capacity for leadership, to escape the monotony of bombardment of the enemy fleet and to succeed...
...odds with Frau Wagner because he felt she favored Toscanini. Fritz Busch is no Jew but the Nazis took his Dresden job away from him because they felt he had Red sympathies. Leo Blech who is a Jew has been permitted to keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would be directed by Karl Elmendorff, Bayreuth's staff conductor, a man of mediocre talent who in past years...
...Germany the Jewish savant now has no chance at all to earn a living. Aryan scientists made that plain last week when the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences held its annual meeting. To Chancellor Hitler, Physicist Max Planck, the Society's president and a Nobel Laureate, sent this salute: "The Society begs leave to tender reverential greetings to the Chancellor and its solemn pledge that German science is also ready to cooperate joyously in the reconstruction of the new National State...