Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Leo Schlageter was a German officer who did not stop fighting when the. War ended. Enraged at the Weimar Republicans, who to his mind were accepting the Versailles Treaty lying down. Albert Schlageter joined a guerrilla band known as the Baltikum troops. When these disbanded he moved to Dusseldorf. In 1923 when the French began to exploit the Ruhr coal mines for German failure to meet Reparations payments. Albert Leo Schlageter and his friends went to work. Railroad bridges were bombed, canal locks smashed, dams destroyed-the French got little benefit from their seized coal. On May 8 Schlageter...
...want the State to interfere, cut the interest rate yourselves." Schlageter. Control of unions, employers, banks-that was enough work for a week, it was time to prepare for another festival. Nazi authorities announced plans last week for a gigantic mass meeting at Diisseldorf in honor of Albert Leo Schlageter. A Nazi martyr was Albert Leo Schlageter. Claimed as one of the original Brownshirts, he was shot by the French during the occupation of the Ruhr for damaging bridges and railways over which they were exporting German coal as part of the Reparations payment. On the field where he faced...
...Mask & the Face (by Luigi Chiarelli; Theatre Guild, producer). Count Paolo Grazia (Stanley Ridges) deeply pitied his cuckold friend Zanotti (Leo G. Carroll). In fact, he was a little disgusted with Zanotti's philosophic complacency in regard to Signora Zanotti's shameless philandering. Zanotti held that a woman, being essentially frivolous, was not to be blamed for her perverse breaches of the moral code. As for the Count, he'd kill his wife (Judith Anderson) if he caught her in another man's arms, that's what he'd do. Just before the close...
...Daily Tab, disappointed when a woman bungles the job of shooting her racketeering husband in his city room, is pleased when her second attempt is successful. There is very little of the thunder of the Hoe press, even a theatrical Hoe press, about Man Bites Dog. Able Leo Donnelly, as the managing editor, finds himself in bad dramatic company...
Appointed. Percy Leo Crosby, 41, cartoonist (Skippy, Always Belittlin). Wartime infantry lieutenant: to be a Major in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserves...