Word: kassel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldier Adolf Hitler traveled by plane, for the first time in more than a year, to address 250,000 War veterans at Kassel. He assured his former comrades that they had waged in 1914-18 a valiant war, only to be betrayed at Versailles by a spineless Government. To the Führer the World War was caused by British and French ambitions to destroy Germany, "the same objectives that animate the encirclement politicians of today." But Germany, he added, will never be sold down the river again, for "I have seen to it that anyone who has anything...
Krenek, who was conductor and stage director of the State Opera Houses in Wiesbaden and Kassel, Germany, has composed operas, symphonies, piano and chamber music, and songs. He is known especially for his operas "Johny Spielt auf," and "Karl...
According to Scotland Yard and the French Surete Nationale, M. Roger Marcel Vernon, one of the few white slavers ever to escape from Devil's Island and resume slaving, flew from Paris to London last week with trusted henchmen to supervise the murder of "Ginger Max" Kassel...
...Slaver Kassel had operated largely in London, setting up girls sent over by M. Vernon each in her own discreet Mayfair flat. Each paid from $250 to $500 to obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...
...Kassel a policeman was killed and a 90-year-old shoemaker shot dead as he watched the riot from his window. In Hamburg five people were wounded. In Bremen rioters stoned policemen, belabored them with short lengths of drainpipe. In Mühlheim six Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists...