Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Planner Göring had a better plan: he decided to get into the steel business himself, boasted that he would make his company "the greatest industrial enterprise in the world." How good Göring has made his boast was told last week in Social Research by Dr. Kurt Lachmann, ex-London correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, now in Manhattan...
People who saw 84-year-old Marshal Pétain after he had heard this news reported that he was calm and serene. But France's Chief of State was going through the same mental and emotional experience that had broken such men as Austria's Kurt von Schuschnigg and Czecho-Slovakia's Eduard Benes. Like them he tried to make little concessions, apparently unwilling to believe that the only concession that ever satisfies Adolf Hitler is capitulation. The old Marshal forced the resignation from his Cabinet of Minister of Justice Raphaël Alibert...
Crazy with the Heat (lyrics & music mostly by Irvin Graham, produced by Kurt Kasznar) is the hastily doctored version of a feeble revue that expired a fortnight ago after seven performances. The doctoring has helped but hasn't cured. Good bits: the veteran Willie Howard, whose Jewish accent cannot be cut with a knife, as a ballet dancer; hot little Diosa Costello shaking everything shakeable in a scorching conga...
...look at and delightful to hear. It has one dream of glamorous evening blue, another gilded dream of an Oriental fairy tale, a glittering dream of a circus that turns into a mild nightmare. It has blandishing music, including a poignant song My Ship, by the German refugee composer Kurt Weill, who scored the productions of The 3-Penny Opera and The Eternal Road] and droll lyrics by Ira Gershwin such...
...first feast of signatures was spread on a yellow-tapestried table in the Gobelin Hall of old Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In these halls once roared the voice of Eugen of Savoy, one of the Habsburgs' greatest warriors. Here strode Archduke Franz Ferdinand before Sarajevo. Here whispered poor Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria. Here also the architects of the New Order redrew the designs of Czecho-Slovakia (Nov. 2, 1938) and Rumania...