Word: theodore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avery Brundage, went to Germany to investigate. It sputtered into fresh flame last fortnight when Jeremiah T. Mahoney, onetime New York Supreme Court Justice, president of the Amateur Athletic Union which is one of 30 sporting organizations represented on the American Olympic Committee, wrote an open letter to Dr. Theodor Lewald, head of the German Olympic Committee, saying that he was convinced that Jews were not being allowed a fair chance to participate in the Olympic Games. In Berlin, Dr. Lewald said: "Olympic pledges will be absolutely kept...
...months famed Radio Engineer Wormys feared that a Nazi "murder party" from Germany would get him, as Nazis got German Philosopher Theodor Lessing, shot two summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
Germany. Official Germany was on edge with hope that the butchers of Engelbert Dollfuss would succeed in upsetting the Austrian Government. When they were clapped into jail Adolf Hitler had to work fast. Unfortunately the German Chancellor's duly appointed Inspector General for Austria, blustering Theodor Habicht, had said while broadcasting from Munich at the height of the excitement that Dollfuss' slayers were "returning" to Germany. That slip caused Chancellor Hitler to fire Herr Habicht from...
...Following Nazi Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring...
...cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Said...