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...operating room. Their occupants were weak women, women who had borne weak children, women considered "enemies of the State." Ziemer also visited a home for feebleminded boys near Leipzig, was led to a small, clean, white-painted hut, known by gossip as a Hitler Kammer. There boys who were still hopelessly clumsy at age ten were put to death. In Nazi homes for prospective mothers, Ziemer found girls who were about to bear State (illegitimate) children showered with admiration, learned that German women, married or unmarried, who had fewer than four children were considered slackers. Once he saw a group...
...Ralph Wyer. The first two of these currently are on the injured list but are expected to return in time for the start of the league campaign next month. Two veterans are available for the defense posts, Dick Purnell, captain, and Ben Fuller, while John Coleman and Lowrey Kammer are veteran goalies. Other men being counted on are Al Fuller, Senior wing; Al Lane, brother of Princeton's former football captain, and Dick Faxon, Sophomore center...
...President Goebbels of the Reichskultur-kammer, apparently interpreting the Carnegie International jury's award of first prize to German Artist Karl Hofer as a deliberate insult* to the Third Reich, vented his bile on Artist Hofer by forbidding him to paint at all. Heretofore merely prevented from exhibiting in Germany, Artist Hofer may now be packed away to a concentration camp if some household spy catches him laying brush to canvas in his own studio...
...chambers (literature, music, press, theatre, art, cinema, radio) is the Musikkammer, presided over by 65-year-old Peter Raabe, one of Germany's numerous lesser symphonic conductors. Every musician in Germany, from symphonic composer to drummer in a town band, must be a member of the Musikkammer. The Kammer fixes and assures collection of composers' royalties, decrees what type of music shall be played and who shall or shall not be permitted to play it. Securely under its thumb are the activities of Germany's world-renowned opera houses, music conservatories, symphony orchestras. Periodically the Musikkammer makes...
Best possible proof that Denmark is an excellent host to woman diplomats was given last month when U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...