Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greig ? these were the composers played creditably by the new 60-piece Indianapolis Orchestra. Teacher Schaefer proved an authoritative leader, but that surprised no one. Ferdinand Schaefer was weel trained in Germany before he came to the U.S. He was first violinist in the famed Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig, had conducting experience with several Leipzig and Berlin organizations. Almost every summer he goes back to Germany for a visit. He likes his beer and the music made by the small orchestras in every German city. U. S. cities should have just such orchestras, he says. But his hope...
...Amsterdam) have not been given without serious damage to some of the works exhibited. Jan Vermeer's "Head of a Young Girl" was returned to The Hague badly cracked from sudden changes in temperature due to numerous trips. A Flemish portrait by Emanuel de Witte went back to Leipzig with a large nail-hole through the canvas...
...cant, characteristics which he showed 37 years ago when he won first honors at Gettysburg (Pa.) College, venerable Lutheran preparatory school for the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The year the Seminary graduated him he married Christine Ritscher of Jersey City, N. J., took her to the University of Leipzig for a year's honeymoon and study. They returned to Manhattan, she to set up a household, he to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Young, bold and persuasive, that same summer he organized for his pastorate the Church of the Atonement, now called Church of Our Savior...
...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...