Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pope Pius XI last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. Thereby His Holiness revived an office, founded originally to collect money to maintain the papal armies, which became a great scandal in the 17th Century. So great was the probable graft that Lorenzo Corsini, later Pope Clement...
...fitting that the Saengerfest should be directed by Bruno Walter, music master of present-day Teutons. His baton had many times hushed audiences of the Staatsoper, once the Royal Opera of Berlin. Even at 17, he had directed the opera at Cologne. Munich, Vienna, Riga had acclaimed him. Later, when anti-Semitic feeling grew bitter in Europe, he sailed for the U. S. Some say he is first in the hearts of German-Americans...
...Herrenschiem-see, Hohenschwangau, and Neu-schwanstein. From them ruled the Wittelsbachs, among the most ancient in lineage of modern Germanic kings, a family of genius often tinged with madness. Last week the head of this venerable and royal house, onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, was visited at his Munich home by delegations of thronging, cheering Bavarians who hailed him as "King Rupprecht, our Rightful King...
Rupprecht conducts himself at present as an ordinary citizen; though he entertained handsomely at Munich recently a delegation of U. S. World War veterans of German descent who came to pay their respects to a Feldmarschall against whose troops some of them had fought...
Professor Caratheodory, now of the University of Munich, received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1904. In 1908 he became professor of mathematics in the Lechnische Hoehschule of Hanover and then of Breslan. Since 1913 he has been professor of mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Berlin, Smyrna where he was also director of the university. Athens and Munich. He will lecture here during the second half year on mathematics...