Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Schmidt of the German Foreign Office was most cordial to the Stockholm newspapermen. He had enjoyed his usual hearty lunch and washed it down with perhaps a little too much good Swedish beer. He beckoned the newsmen close. Because of the "advanced stage" of Swedish-German relations and the "various rumors" that Germany was going to invade Sweden, Herr Schmidt was going to release a secret...
...have been informed, strictly confidentially," he said, "that Sweden is occupied by German troops since yesterday." Newsmen gulped, departed, began telephoning frantically for details. When they were gone, Herr Schmidt roared with laughter. It had all been a joke, an assurance, of course, that the invasion talk was ludicrous. It was all very funny...
...Swedes. They knew Herr Schmidt's humor was not all in fun. It was the start of the same old guessing game which began each year with the melting snows. Everyone would guess which way Adolf Hitler would jump next-then wonder how they could have missed the obvious. In 1940 the experts had Hitler invading France-but he struck at Norway first. In 1941 he was going against the British or Turkey-but he turned against Russia instead. Now, in 1942, it seemed that Hitler would strike toward the Russian Caucasus or the Suez Canal. Naturally, the Swedes...
...coded jobs to be done, and soothing instructions on how to use it ("Don't take one look at this directory and then decide it is too complicated. . . . Anyone who can read a telephone book can read this"). Jim Stanley and Westinghouse Production Engineer S. W. ("Bill") Schmidt went to Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt was a cagey tester, did not show his detailed drawing until he was sure that the local factories had doped out the directory properly on their...
Williams entries are Bob Hendria, Jalian Hemphill, Bill Schmidt, Dave Peet, Allan Maulsby, Ban Rugg, George Nehrbas, Michael Griggs, and Ted Hunt...