Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned to be rich. His mother was an important brewer's daughter and he has never known TIME, June 25, 1934 poverty. His domineering wife, an old-time singer, supports him when...
Same day in Munich, home of dark beer and darker Adolf Hitler. German artists were assured that Hitlerism is not opposed to art by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & National Enlightenment. "Since National Socialism looks upon itself as the Art of Politics," crowed Cock Goebbels. "it feels a natural kinship with the other arts and artists...
...matter of the scholarship, which stipulates that the student receiving the money spend six months in Munich and the rest at any other German University, will be brought up at the next meeting of the Corporation. Possibilities of a difficult situation were seen by many, since Hanfstaengl has already resigned as aide to Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler '09, Chief Marshal of the 25th Class Day reunion...
...Daily News; Konrad Heiden: "Geschichte des Nationalismus," Berlin 1932; Paul Kosck: "Modern Germany," (Chicago 1933) in the University of Chicago Training of Citizens series; "Nazifuhrer sehen dich an," (Paris, 1934); the first and second "Brown Books," the second as yet not translated; and Adolf Hitler: "Mein Kampf," (38th printing, Munich, 1933) especially pages...
Peace for a Jewish fammily was something unknown when Bloch grew up in Geneva. The community was strongly Gentile, still seething from the Dreyfus affair. In his home Bloch learned Jewish melodies, Jewish lore. There was money enough for him to study for a time in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk...