Word: voss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present for the telling in Federal Judge John C. Knox's courtroom were Johanna Hofmann, a red-haired hairdresser on the German liner Europa, ex-Private Erich Glasser of the U. S. Air Corps, and one Otto Hermann Voss, formerly a mechanic in a Long Island aircraft factory (Seversky) which makes planes for the U. S. Army. Still at large, presumably in Germany, were 14 other defendants...
...named in the indictments, 14, including a key witness named Dr. Ignatz Griebl, are believed to have left the U. S. Two, Lieut. Commander Udo von Bruen, and Lieut. Commander Hermann Menzel are minor officials of the German War Ministry. In captivity awaiting trial are only four: Otto Hermann Voss, a onetime employe in the experimental section of Seversky Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger...
...length only by the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert and the Italian royal yacht Savoia, in tonnage by only the Victoria and Albert. Designed like a fast transatlantic passenger ship, carrying a crew of 83, she was built at a cost of $2,000,000 in the Blohm & Voss shipyards of Hamburg...
Show Downs. The first thing in his life that Torkild Rieber set his mind upon was his own career. Born in a little town called Voss in the interior of Norway, he went to sea at 14, thereby upsetting the future plotted for him by his father, a progressive woolen manufacturer who expected to rear his eldest son in the family business. Son Torkild learned seamanship in sailing vessels, passed his examination for a master's ticket at 19, got his first command at 21. It was a sailing vessel and, more important, an oil tanker...
...family's greatest newspaper, somehow managed to survive. Older by 173 years than the House of Ullstein which took it over in 1914, 229 years older than Nazidom, as dignified as the London or the New York Times but far more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated...