Word: schmitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayors came & went. In 1869 the transcontinental railroad arrived and the few San Franciscans who had managed to make and hold their fortunes built wooden castles on Nob Hill. The thousands who had not, organized. Subsequently the organized put Eugene E. Schmitz of the Musicians' Union into City Hall...
Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
Debussy: Preludes, Book I (1910) (E. Robert Schmitz, pianist; Victor, 14 sides). The shimmering Voiles (Sails) and eerie La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral) are not as sensitively played as the Nazis' star Pianist Walter Gieseking played them in 1939 for Columbia, but the recording is better. Performance: good...
...Bischoff, curator of the Berlin University zoological museum, marched into Father Schmitz's cloister and demanded to see the collection. Father Schmitz showed him the phorid flies (the ants had been sent to Maastricht's natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on all this belongs to me. And I want the Wasmann ants, too." "Give Up." This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht. He helped patriotic Dutch formicophiles hide the ant collection in the cellar of the Town Hall. But Professor...
Last week Maastricht's citizens, wondering about the fate of their ants in bombed Berlin, were not very hopeful of ever getting the great collection back. As for Father Schmitz, when last heard from he was in the Tyrol collecting phorid flies, had already collected 1,000 species...