Word: schmitte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Darré in the saddle last week Old Paul's Junker friends seemed doomed. Agriculture was only half of Dr. Hugenberg's Ministry. Economics, the other half. Chancellor Hitler split off last week and placed in charge of a steady-going German insurance tycoon, Dr. Kurt Schmitt. There was, however, a catch. Dr. Schmitt, a man of no political prestige, will have as his Undersecretary and mentor famed Gottfried Feder, the "Nazi Ideologist," inventor of the Party's distinction between two kinds of capital: raffendes or "grasping loan capital" and schaffendes or "creative industrial capital...
...advises Secretary Hull on the Far East, Police Commissioner J. K. Watkins of Detroit, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson (whose conception of the expanding Universe is called the "Hubble Bubble"), Chairman Francis P. Miller of the World's Student Christian Federation, Pulitzer Prize Historian Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, Geneva Newsmen Clarence K. Streit (New York Times) and Lewis...
...Ravel, Schmitt, Roussel," Professor Hill, Paine Hall, Music Building...
...certainly the Free State of Bavaria must consider whether to restore as King her popular Rupprecht, discarded when Crown Prince in 1918. Excitedly at Karlsruhe met three South German champions of states' rights: Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria; Premier Dr. Eugen Bolz of Wurttemberg, Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result of this wire was to make the von Papen Cabinet shorten their reactionary...
Chancellor von Paoen, making what his friends called an effort to soothe the South Germans, replied that the Federal Government did not intend to name a Federal commissioner for Prussia "unless public order is endangered and then only for a short time." Premier Held, Premier Bolz and Premier Schmitt then stiffly intimated their opinion that such action would be unconstitutional and sufficient grounds for secession of South Germany from the Federal union. The interview had lasted 90 minutes...