Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less remarkable than this gadget is the small, grey man who thought it up-Professor Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. Born in Saxon Germany 55 years ago, Frederick Kirsten once terrified the town of Grossenhain by enveloping it in a smoke screen, ran away to sea at 17 in a three-masted windjammer, jumped ship in Tacoma with $1.50 in his pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours...
Said Adolf Hitler's Boston envoy, over the signature of Kurt Bohme: "This Con sulate has read the editorial . . in which the head of a nation, with whom the United States of America entertains dip lomatic relations, is insulted in such un civilized expressions, that this Consulate in the future must refuse to give your paper any information in whatever matter...
Press Relations. Kurt Bohme is assistant to the Consul in Boston. Head of the Consulate, who presumably dictates its policies, is a six-foot, hefty, blond young Nazi socialite, Dr. Herbert Scholz, reputedly a onetime member of Hitler's personal bodyguard. He was for a while first secretary of the German Embassy in Washington (in charge of press relations), then German Consul in New Orleans, before he went to Boston in 1938. As Consul in Boston, one of his first acts was to move his office from the dowdy building it then occupied in the business district, take over...
...last reports from darkest Austria, Kurt von Schuschnigg was still alive, had been spirited to the Nazi-guarded Wittelsbach Palace near Munich, after an attempt to rescue him from solitary confinement in the garret of the Hotel Metropole in Vienna. *"To pay $20 or $25 a bottle for what is known . . . as 'original Chartreuse' (that manufactured before the expulsion from France of the Pères Chartreux) is . . . to pay a matter of $15 for a superiority which simply does not exist" (Schoonmaker and Marvel, The Complete Wine Book...
Byliners. Only since the Norwegian invasion have PK men been given bylines in the German press. Crack reporters of the campaigns around Trondheim, Andalsnes. and Hamar were Horst Lehmann (correspondent for Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter, Goebbels' Der Angriff), Kurt Stolzenberg, Fritz Dettmann, Walter Möller...