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Jooss was scarcely out on his own when old-style ballet began to impress him. He admired it for its discipline, its grace. As ballet master at the opera house in Münster he found a sympathetic collaborator in Fritz Cohen, a budding young conductor who was glad to write music for dancing. In Münster the leading dancer was Aino Siimola, a sleek black-haired Esthonian who became Jooss's wife and assistant director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jooss Start | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce was to be mentioned, the nuns used the phrase "Louis has written a letter"), he advised the sisters to smuggle paper marks out of Germany, pay off the St. Louis debt and further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Holy Smugglers | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

Speeches. Faced by a hostile world, what would Germany do next? No help to the international situation was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen who went to Münster over the week-end and announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isolation | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...month. It was not, and the results are still successful from the Government's point of view. Faced with the necessity of going before a hostile Reichstag, last week they tried another showdown. There were many Cabinet conferences, then lean Chancellor Franz von Papen went down to Münster to make a speech before the Westphalian Peasants' Congress. He minced no words. First came an attack on Handsome Adolf for his manifesto on the Beuthen death sentences (see above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One-Year Plan | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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