Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
Applegate, a figment of the imaginations of Lloyd M. Ritter '50 and Robert M. Young '49, garnered 90 votes from unsuspecting Freshmen, and the possibility that these votes might have influenced the outcome led several defeated candidates to demand a now election...
Though Applegate backers did not turn to the sex-conscious campaign methods need by other Yard politicos, pictures of "Applegate" like the one to the right, actually Ritter's Rutgers friend Joseph Leopold, were posted conspicuously in the Union...
...Ritter and Young entered their fictitious friend in the race "to show how our so-called democratic government really works...
This week the protesters got a shock. Archbishop Ritter, a mild but positive man, gave them a warning in a pastoral letter, read at all Masses throughout his archdiocese. If they carried through their threat of action against the Church, he said, they would be open to the gravest penalty the Church can exercise-excommunication. "Obedience to ecclesiastical authority, said his letter, was a cardinal principle of their faith. So, he reminded them, was "the equality of every soul before Almighty...