Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total defeat of Germany is the only way to rid the world of the Nazi menace," Erika Mann, daughter of famed Thomas Mann and a noted author in her own right, stated in a speech at Brattle Hall last night...
...York City they received a radiogram from the League of American Writers, summoning them to a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Thinking they had been rescued by the Emergency Rescue Committee, Authors Mann and Werfel were puzzled. But not wishing to seem rude, they said: all right, they would come...
...only confused people. Awaiting them at the dinner were Harper's able, amiable President Cass Canfield; Clifton Paul Fadiman (Information Please), who was master of ceremonies; some dozen Manhattan publishers; 1,500 guests who raised $14,000 for the work of the Exiled Writers Committee. But Exhibits Mann and Werfel did not show...
Once on dry land they had taken one penetrating look around, hastily developed an overpowering fatigue, disappeared. Also unable to attend (for reasons not stated) was Brother Thomas Mann, who, tired of being used as a Communist front, has avoided the League of American Writers for many months. Author Feuchtwanger attended...
Meanwhile the Emergency Rescue Committee made no comment beyond announcing a dinner of its own, also at the Hotel Commodore, in honor of distinguished Exiles Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden. Distinguished speaker: Thomas Mann...