Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wachsmuth, whose official title is Director of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, is the head of the laboratory which tests Dr. Steiner's ideas in the fields of biology and the physical sciences. Educated at the University of Munich and Oxford, Dr. Wachsmuth has devoted his life to studying the earth as a living organism. He is the author of two books, "Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth, and Man" and "The Etheric World in Science, Art. and Religion...
Other Germans who merit executive clemency, the Realmleader decreed, will be pardoned by General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Air Minister and Grand Master of the Chase, who conducted the Nazi blood purge in Berlin while Herr Hitler was purging Munich (TIME, July 9). Since Nazi Goring, a War ace grown beefy, designs a new uniform for himself every time he adds to his string of offices, Berlin buzzed with scurrilous rumors that "Hermann has sent to Oberammergau for the costume of the Saviour in which he will sign pardons...
...Then at Munich there was the case of C. W. Woodside, instructor at the University of Toronto. His hotelkeeper heard him say to a fellow tourist, "I nearly got into trouble this morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room...
...Denver, Oscar Malo received a cable from his Son Kenneth in Munich: "Imperative you send marks immediately." Malo cabled $1,000 in marks. Son Kenneth kept the money, crossly cabled: "I meant my school marks...
Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...