Word: otto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian Premier Otto Braun (Socialist). When this motion was defeated and the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading 210 to 38 the Communists forced a five minute suspension of the Landtag by their shouts of rage and dispersed to plan a filibuster by violence...
Twenty-four judges worked to pick the championship and gold medal collections. Never before in the world's history had such a collection of expert philatelists assembled in one room. Prince Otto of Hungary, exiled in Spain, sent his collection. General F. Hegeman-Lindencrone of Copenhagen, 85, who specializes in Nordic stamps, stamps on the original envelopes, and the postal issues of Schleswig and Holstein, sent 2,000 of his rarest pieces. U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New sent a government exhibition and put on sale (twelve days earlier than he had meant to) a new two-cent...
...Four hundred pounds," chorused the prisoners. Delinquents they were, brought before Judge Otto Rosalsky in Manhattan. The judge was testing them for feeblemindedness after a method...
...scrubbed politically and artistically, gave last week in the Civic Auditorium the first of twelve performances that will make up its fourth annual season. Martha was the happy choice, had worthy treatment by the imported principals, the domestic chorus. All praise went to Musical Director Gaetano Merola who conducted. Otto H. Kahn was there, guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera talent will have its full...
...York Symphony, Walter Damrosch, conductor, Otto Klemperer and Fritz Busch, guest conductors, will give 20 Sunday afternoon concerts, beginning on Oct. 31, 12 Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano...