Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel's janitor...
Deeply moving too were Orator Hitler's words last week, he having in the meantime ruptured the treaty in question and remilitarized the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). "Natural rights stand above the paragraphs of treaties," the Realmleader told an election throng of 20,000 at Frankfurt-am-Main. "I ask the German people, 'Art Thou, Oh German people, in favor of burying the hatchet with France?' and they reply 'Yes.' And I ask, 'Dost Thou, Oh German people, desire that we should attempt to lord it over or suppress France?' and they answer...
...nigsberg one of his weepy moods overtook Orator Hitler. "Do you think this struggle has been easy for me?" he pathetically asked the throng. "It is consuming my nerves and my strength. I am not growing any younger. I realize that things which I once could do easily are painfully hard for me today...
Wildly though the Munich throng of 300,000 Germans cheered Adolf Hitler, and plain though it had become that Germany was back on the "Me und Gott" standard of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin still remained irresolute. Britain's Ambassador to Germany, Sir Eric Phipps, "almost begged" Realmleader Hitler to send a delegation to London unconditionally. Instead the Destiny-guided Realmleader came back with another slap. As his price for sending a delegation to London he asked Britain to get from all nations concerned promises that they will make Adolf Hitler's terms the basis...
...strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed the chairman that he had nothing to say, that inspiration which he had awaited until the last moment had failed him. The chairman, much more embarrassed than the medalist, conveyed this information...