Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Hobson donned his heavy black satin chimere, white puff-sleeved rochet, stole and academic hood in a private room along with the Church's Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, Bishop Joseph Marshall Francis of Indiana, Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California. All the bishops looked and felt hot, for the day was unseasonably muggy. In Nippert Stadium to watch the procession to the great altar were but 10,000 people, half the number for whom host Bishop Hobson's committee had provided transportation...
...controlled by the German Foreign Office, whose job was to keep Berlin informed of the doings of Germans in Britain. Only one of the three expelled Germans, Werner von Crome of the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, was recognized by the Foreign Press Correspondents Association; the other two, Franz Otto Wrede and Wolf Dietrich Langen, were working for a German news agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was lately thrown out of Fascist Italy for promoting the Nazi cause too zealously there. According...
Manfully Zurich detectives and policemen worked to prevent Nazis or Swiss Jewbaiters from causing any incidents during the Congress, but at week's end Swiss fascists managed to knock the hat off Rabbi Wolf Gold, once of New York, now of Palestine, and to bloody the nose of a British delegate...
...said later, that during that half he would lead the orchestra. When he arrived at the Dell, however, Iturbi found that Singers Peerce and Monroe were about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor Iturbi was not expected to accompany these songs and singers, but his emotional temperature began rising rapidly. He heard Mr. Peerce through two numbers, then strode upon the Dell stage, and began gesticulating at a radio announcer...
...While Italian newshawks were filing back to London, Werner von Crome, chief London correspondent for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, his assistant, Franz Otto Wrede, and Wolf Dietrich Langen, a German newsagency correspondent, were preparing to go back to Germany. They had been informed by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare that their permits to remain in Britain would not be renewed. Declared Correspondent von Crome: "There was no reason given. . . . I deny that the action was taken as a result of complaints of espionage." These three were believed to be the first German newshawks ever expelled from Britain in peacetime. This week...