Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliberation-decided that Bridges had been a Communist and had lied when he denied it at his naturalization proceedings in 1945. For abetting the deception by serving as Bridges' naturalization witnesses, two top lieutenants in the I.L.W.U.-Vice President J. R. Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt-were also convicted. This week Bridges was sentenced to five years, and his companions to two years, in prison...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...
From the British loudspeaker a voice began: "Achtung! Bitte Melden! Elizabeth Schmidt, mit zwei Kindern" Frau
...Schmidt stumbled through the crowd with her two small sons by the hand. The boys carried a brown enamel soup can and tattered cloth shopping bags. The loudspeaker squawked again: "Paul Fehr. F-e-h-r." No one moved. A man's trembling voice spoke from the rear: "1st . . . nicht . . . mitgekommen [didn't come along]." As more names were read off, nearly half were "nicht mitgekommen" or "noch im Lager [still in camp...
...Communist enemy," wrote Schmidt, "has fomented intrigues which have insinuated themselves into Brazilian opinion ... It is our duty, not only to unmask the lies, intrigues and false interpretations, but to cure the ills which really exist . . . Unless the country is enriched, there will be no social justice, no order, no true democracy, no cultural advancement-millions and millions of Brazilians will continue to vegetate, lost in poverty...