Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War Monsignor Pacelli was appointed Nuncio at Munich. That nunciature was the channel through which many, an important diplomatic negotiation was carried on between the warring nations. Nuncio Pacelli was entrusted with Benedict XV's famed peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal...
Returning last week to Manhattan from a trip to her native Austria, Harpsichordist Yella Pessl had good news for those music lovers who like to hear 17th and 18th Century works on the instruments for which they were written. On its way from Munich was a fine new harpsichord, made by Karl Maendler, famed for his work with archaic instruments, on which she will record some more Bach, Händel, Purcell, old German Christmas songs for Columbia this week. Herr Maendler's aim in constructing from old Viennese cherry-wood this super-harpsichord was to eliminate the twangling...
...woman carries a portable clavichord on her back on Austrian outings. This summer, be nighted at a Tirolean inn, Yella Pessl met Karl Maendler. When he heard who Miss Pessl was, Herr Maendler vowed he would build her a famous harpsichord, set to work immediately on his return to Munich. Another summer's adventure occurred when she played at Salzburg for Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas and Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who pronounced Miss Pessl's Haydn concerto EntzÜckend. Last week Yella Pessl an nounced her present ambition to "shoot" New York's Mayor...
...apple-cheeked deputy leader Rudolf Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as usual the annual Proclamation-in effect a State of the Nation speech-written by Adolf Hitler was delivered by Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi Leader, a true Teuton orator whose rasping pugnacious voice sounds almost exactly like Der Führer...
Hans Fischer, of the Technische Hochschule, Munich, Chemistry. Nobel Prize winner...