Word: meissner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight new associates were also appointed in science and medicine. They are : Harry L. Kozol '27, Somers H. Sturgis '27, Alexander S. Macmillan, William A. Meissner, Samuel P. Hicks Don W. Fawcett '38, Douglas M. Surgenor, and Avram S. Goldstein...
...priced, lower frequency sets like Crosley, Philco and RCA-Victor, discussed chiefly such visually satisfying high-priced machines ($495 and up) as Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight pickup, but costs much more ($1,495 and $2,500) than the Fisher...
Adolf Hitler was the subject of some nasty gossip last week. Burbled the wife of Nazi Secretary of State Otto Meissner (now awaiting trial at Dachau): the Fuhrer had a son, Helmuth, by Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of 1934. "At that time Frau Goebbels was on bad terms with her husband.. . . Hitler visited her so regularly in her apartment that their relations were obvious. . . . They seemed lost in each other's company, especially when love songs were played. Later, their relations...
Papen found other allies. There was Hindenburg's "notoriously lazy" son, Oscar, who "enjoyed parties in a slow way." And there was Dr. Otto Meissner who "was to have the unique distinction of having served Socialist Ebert, Field Marshal Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler in the same confidential capacity, giving the same satisfaction to all three...
...Presidential secretary, Meissner "served as a kind of second memory to the Chief of State," whose own memory tended more & more to wander. Once a Reichstag member strolled into the President's office, munching a sandwich. He put the sandwich wrapper on the table. "My God," shouted Meissner, "get that paper off the table before the Old Gentleman comes in here and signs...