Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a large sprinkling of foreign works, principally from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Russia. A first edition is shown of "Max und Moritz," which is the ancestor of the modern comic strip and which has its modern counterpart in the "Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and the Kids," Represented by three editions is "Slovenly Peter," the most popular children's book ever written, with over 8,000,000 copies turned out thus far. Original drawings are shown for the "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear" stories of Uncle Remus, whose real name was A. B. Frost...
Miss Thompson, ever a brilliant rationalizer of ideas, says that her plan developed largely from conversations with German Credit Expert Moritz Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating...
...Grace Noll Crowell of Dallas, Tex. just nosed out Mrs. Eddie Cantor. Mrs. Crowell has three children and has written 1,900 poems, a large number of them about the Home. Last week she arrived in Manhattan with her husband, was put up at the St. Moritz, given a medal, presented to Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Grover Whalen. Said Mrs. Crowell: "Womanhood is fundamentally sound...
Professor Moritz Oppenheim, 61, best skin specialist in Vienna...
...George Tatarescu put their heads together. The Premier handed His Majesty the Cabinet's resignation, and the Cabinet was then immediately reformed under Premier Tatarescu-without Foreign Minister Titulescu. At about the same time M. Titulescu began feeling queer, and soon eight doctors were working frantically at St. Moritz to save the great Rumanian statesman from death by poison...