Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Attache in London, Berlin, Rome. When the Shenandoah's crash was laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work on meteorology and radio communications, resigned from the Navy to join the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. he, with Dr. Karl Arnstein who built 70 German dirigibles, turned out the Akron and the Macon. He will continue as consultant for Goodyear when he takes up his M.I.T. post this autumn...
...Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...
...Villa Wahnfried, drooped over the street as Chancellor Hitler drove through cheering Fascist crowds. Scowling Brown Shirts, rifle at shoulder, guarded the entrance of the refurbished Festspielhaus. It was Nazi Day at Bayreuth. Despite Hitler's prohibition of demonstrations "not pertaining to Wagner's immortal music," Karl Elmendorff's flat, insipid conducting of Die Meistersinger could not conceal the fact that Nazi Germany was again parading its national resurgence. Most foreign Wagnerites, regarding the Festival as an act of homage, remained away...
...Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert...
Four days after Scripps-Howard newspapers' short chief, Roy W. Howard, scored an interview with the Emperor of Japan (see p. 37) his successor as president of United Press, Karl A. Bickel. was received in Berlin by Chancellor Hitler, put the pertinent question whether if Nazi nationalism should spread to other lands the result would be favorable to international peace. Coining a new paradox, Herr Hitler said. "The result would be 'International Nationalism' of the highest type throughout the world. . . . This would facilitate the solution of the most difficult problems...