Word: lippert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator La Follette made no attempt to use the film as evidence that the police fired without provocation, as neither he nor anyone else has ever seriously contended. Senator La Follette's thesis was that the provocations did not justify the subsequent brutality. The Paramount cameraman, Orlando Lippert, testified that he was changing lenses when the action began, though he claimed he missed only seven seconds of the battle...
...start of the Memorial Day riot outside Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant, a Paramount newsreel cameraman named Orlando Lippert had his truck parked about 50 ft. from the centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...last week Cameraman Lippert's film had been shown in no U. S. theatre- For this there was good reason. The prints were held by Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. So highly did the young Wisconsin Senator value the reel as evidence in the Committee's investigation of the Memorial Day riot that he defied a subpoena for the film voted by the Senate Post Office Committee, which is pondering a general steel strike investigation...
...April 1931 has been hulking Dr. Heinrich Sahm-"Long Heinrich'' to Berliners. A favorite of old President Paul von Hindenburg and highly popular in Berlin, he is no Nazi at heart, has had most of his functions taken over by the Nazi Commissar for Berlin. Dr. Julius .Lippert. Last week, word went round the coffee houses that the Brown Shirts finally had got the Mayor. Up before a secret party court he was hauled, charged with high crime: not bribery, not corruption in office, but buying articles for his own use from a Jewish department store. The evidence...
...Lippert Jr., 9, who sometimes directs the choir. The other is William Stevenson Jr., 8. But Director Lippert will let no one in his troupe be regarded as a prima donna. Even the finances are run on a completely co-operative basis. As the choir makes money, 60% of the profits will be allotted equally among the boys who must set it aside to be used toward a college education or toward entering some business which must be approved by Director Lippert and his board of trustees...