Word: lippert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their director was Robert Lippert, a big, tense, jowly man who was once a boy soprano in the German Lutheran Church in Olean, N. Y. Robert Lippert well remembers when he was 13 and his father, the choirmaster, gave him a gold watch and said: "Son, you can't sing with us any longer." Though Son Lippert's voice changed, his interest in choral singing persisted. As he grew up, he organized choirs of his own, concentrated on the relationship of the voice to a boy's physical development. His conclusion was that voices do not necessarily...
...Director Lippert chose Steubenville for his field because of the mixed racial background, which he maintains makes for the richest tone color. The boys who went to sing with him soon learned that they must submit to a strict routine which precluded all roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived...
Prominent in Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce are Jews. Last week they were unhappy. From all over the world irate Jews sent cables denouncing them for failing to denounce the Nazi Governor of Berlin, bullet-headed Dr. Julius Lippert, when he addressed the Chamber at luncheon thus: "Economically nothing has happened to the Jews of Germany. Not a single dispossession or destruction of a so-called Jewish enterprise has taken place. If a Jew has proved to the State that he is ready to fulfill all the duties put upon him which every other inhabitant of our Fatherland...
Suave alibi of Berlin's American Chamber: Nazi Lippert was their "guest...
...Governor Lippert's speech last week was believed to have been made at the instance of German Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Appealing to what he called "America's sober business sense," Guest Lippert said that U. S. citizens who boycott German goods do so "from wholly false assumptions." Calling the boycott "contrary to all American interests," he threatened German retaliation against U. S. exports, menacingly concluded: "One can do business only with good friends; with bad friends business is always...