Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accompanying Capitalist Ryti into the Bolshevik's lion's den was plutocrat Major General Karl Rudolf Walden, member of the Defense Council, close friend and adviser to Baron Mannerheim. Known as Finland's cellulose king and one of her wealthiest citizens, he is editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...
...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
Beside Rohrlich and Stetner, the refugees who are graduate students include Herman Noether of Berlin, whose father is a famous German mathematician now in exile in Russia; Karl Deutsche, a Czech who came to Harvard year ago; Walter Pick 2M, another Czech who chalked up an outstanding record for his first half year's work at the Medical School; Herbert Sonthoff of Berlin; Georg Fleishcer, who was formerly a wealthy philanthropist and educational leader in Vienna and was exiled without a penny because he married Jewess; and Klemens Klemperer, another Austrian...
...irritated, him that he failed to make the customary gesture of throwing a few events Princeton's way so that the score might be toned down a little. The Eli tank impressario had previously eased up on a mediocre Dartmouth team with a 43 to 32 score, apparently because Karl Michael, former assistant coach at Yale, is just beginning his career as Indian head coach this year...
...shutting off supplies of cotton, wool, jute, aluminum and iron from Rumanian factories, not only assured the British Government that Rumania's exports of oil to Germany would not exceed 130,000 tons per month, but embargoed all aviation fuel and lubricants from leaving the country. With Dr. Karl Clodius, economic field marshal for Adolf Hitler, due back in Bucharest this week for a final showdown on Rumanian oil, this step was a daring one indeed. And Rumania backed it up by ordering to their regiments at once 200,000 reservists who had been called for March 1. Troops...