Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow trucked in and packed by hand, the Green jumpers swooped to victory Saturday before a crowd of 4500 as they climaxed a clean sweep of the meet with a perfect score of 500. Threatened to the end by the University of Munich delegation, the Dartmouth ski-men were led to victory by Dick Durrance and Howard Chivers, who coralled firsts in the downhill, slalom, and langlauf events...
...Spaniard Pablo Picasso found the perfect subject for his new horror-mangled style in a huge mural, The Bombing of Guernica, for the Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...
Died. Erich Ludendorff, 72, Germany's ruthless, domineering Wartime Chief of Staff, after an operation for a bladder ailment; in Munich...
...when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which to write his laundry list. Senefelder. whose plays no one would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver by practicing writing backward on slabs of limestone which he picked up around Munich. In wax, backward, he wrote the laundry list on a piece of stone, reflected afterward that if the stone were bitten away with acid around the wax he could ink it and get an impression...
...Games, Krupp Surprise. Leaving Munich in separate trains, Mussolini first, the Dictators traveled across Germany and around Berlin to watch war games in the Baltic Province of Mecklenburg, dashed about in snorting open cars, cheered loudly by downy-lipped German soldiers, boys of the 1935 class, the first called up by Hitler after he restored conscription. Having now done their two years' service, the class of 1935 was whooping with elation last week, just about to be sent home. They fought the sort of open, spectacular game cinema producers think is war. Cordial was Der Führer...