Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler voted recently as a "resident of Munich." Before leaving for Italy to visit Benito the Builder this week (see p. 17) Der Führer announced that he will rebuild his favorite German city by 1945, slated for construction 24,000 new houses in Munich, half of these for workers...
Miss Winsloe was alive and well the last time her friends here heard from her, which was less than a month ago. She lives in Munich, not in London. She has been married once to Baron Ludwig Hatvany who lives in Budapest. She was divorced from him twelve years...
...east. All but two were from Duveneck's best period, the 1870s and 1880s. During those years Duveneck was a famous expatriate with one of the largest followings among young painters that any U.S. artist has ever had. A big, Viking-bearded Bohemian who took the Munich Academy by storm at 21, then opened his own school in definace of it, Duveneck painted in the spirit of Frans Hals. In such paintings as The Bohemian (see cut, p. 36) he showed an almost equal mastery of brush modeling...
...Nazi Germany's war on the Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism's most experienced critic of Nazi ideology is Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
...Students went to classes without neckties, and in the afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt close to Nature-ever since his unhappy childhood in Munich, his happy youth in Italy, his placid days in Switzerland when he worked for the Berne patent office and pondered the structure of the world...