Word: schrenk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decked streets. In the midst of the procession was the Blessed Sacrament (to Catholics, the real presence of God), borne in a monstrance under a silken canopy by vested priests. As darkness fell, the marchers reached the end of their two-mile route, the gardens of the old von Schrenk estate. There, before an altar, a priest raised his arms in the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and air bombs and rockets showered the night with cascading fire. This Old-World pageantry took place last week in the little town of Florissant, Mo., near St. Louis...
Glory-Seekers. Up into the stratosphere last week soared the Bartsch von Sigsfeld, biggest balloon in Germany. Aboard were Dr. Hermann Victor Masuch, meteorologist, and Dr. Franz Martin Schrenk, pilot. Their purpose was to rise 32,800 ft., study cosmic rays, bring glory to the Reich. Next day scientist, pilot and balloon were reported missing. Day after in Russia, near the Latvian border, was found the wreckage of the Bartsch von Sigsfeld. In it was Meteorologist Masuch, dead. Nine miles away lay Pilot Schrenk, also dead...
Died. Frank Henry Schrenk, 46, president of Philadelphia's North City Trust Co., chairman of the National Depositors' Committee seeking to release frozen accounts; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia...
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