Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From once-famed University of Berlin came news last week of the recent dedication of a new "anti-Semite department," named for Nazi Germany's front-rank anti-Semite, Julius Streicher. Present to open the first university course in Jew-baiting was Namesake Streicher himself. "Professor" Streicher, wearing puttees and carrying a riding crop, delivered a two-and-one-half-hour lecture on "Science and Jews." Keynote: "Any concept of history that records a Jew as a learned man or genius is false...
Muddle No. 2: the complacency with which the ship's crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...
Died. Edward W. ("Doc") Smithers, 69, chief White House telegrapher; of heart disease ; in Washington. Telegrapher Smithers started under McKinley in 1898. In 1909 President Taft gave Doc Smithers the gold telegraph key used ever since by Presidents to open bridges, dams, highways...
Asked about My Dear Children, the play he will open in next month, four-times married John Barrymore replied: "Oh, it's a play about a ham who couldn't get along with his wives...
Nevertheless, International's bright-eyed, nickel-grey-haired President Robert Crooks Stanley announced last month that Frood had begun open-pit mining. By last week, these new operations were fast approaching a fixed-quota yield of 4,000 tons of ore a day. This is low-grade ore, expensive to smelt. But open-pit mining is much cheaper than shaft mining and-more important to smart President Stanley and International's 90,000 stockholders-combination of the two methods will assure an average grade of ore for many a year, will put off the day when even Frood...