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...public television network ARD sacked two of its top sports editors who, prosecutors say, had taken fees from organizers of minor sporting events in exchange for coverage. Despite these high-profile cases, corruption watchdogs say Germany is still pretty clean. "Corruption hasn't become more frequent," says Ludolf von Wartenberg, director general of the Federation of German Industries in Berlin. "It's just that the cases have become more spectacular." Indeed, studies indicate that Germany's corporate sector, together with its public authorities and political institutions, is actually becoming less dodgy. The latest corruption index published by Transparency International...
Crash. As it must to all men, Death came last week to Ago Adolf Georg Otto von Maltzan, Baron Zu Wartenberg und Penzlin, 50, German Ambassador to the U. S., while flying in a Lufthansa monoplane from Berlin to Munich. The crash occurred near Schleiz, Thuringia. Five others were instantly killed: Baron Hans von Arnim, Lufthansa official; Herr Roell, director of the Reich railroads; Otto Osners, student pilot; Herr Seiler, mechanic; Herr Charlett, pilot...
...next annual convention of the Modern Language association will be held at Harvard during the Christmas holidays of this year. Announcements of papers that will be presened have reached the secretary of the convention from Professors Hunt (Princeton), Gummere (Haverford), Wright (Middlebury), Primer (Providence), Tolman (Ripon), Gerber (Earlham), Schmidt-Wartenberg (University of Deseret), Kent (University of Tennessee), Grandgent (Boston), Matzke (Bowdoin), Marcou (University of Michigan), Dodge (Columbia). Precise dates and definite place of the meeting will be given in the programme which will be issued shortly before the convention...
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