Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Oswald Spengler, 55, famed German philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. His monumental, two-volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting...
...Onto a platform at Philadelphia's Temple University climbed Oswald Garrison Villard, oldtime editor of the Nation, to deliver a ringing peace message. Into the meeting charged a flying wedge of unsympathetic Temple athletes who pelted the demonstrators with lemons and vegetables, triumphantly upset the speakers' platform...
Devine Theft. On Jan. 28, 1935, negotiable bonds worth $1,507,938 vanished from the office of C. J. Devine & Co., 25 floors above Wall Street. Police made no headway until a stranger telephoned Detective Henry P. Oswald in Manhattan last month, hinted that the bonds might be "in Paris-Paris, France." From officials there, Oswald learned that a dressy mob was peddling U. S. securities at cut rates among U. S. expatriates. Another tip led to a beauteous blonde called the Marchioness Pia Ferrari Davico. Federal agents enticed the "Marchioness...
Confident the Devine and United States Trust thefts were linked, Director Hoover dispatched a Federal man to France. Lest they lose their share of the credit, Manhattan police sent Detective Oswald...
Politics is a slower game than Monopoly, requires more skill. It was invented by Oswald ("Oz") Lord, a tall, gangling Manhattan Yaleman (Class of 1926) who holds down a good desk in the family textile firm of Galey & Lord. One of nine children, Oz Lord says he thought of Politics while taking a hot shower last spring. Other Lord ideas have been a foot ball game invented at the age of 12 (successful) and a backgammon dice duplicator (unsuccessful...