Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William De Wolf Hopper, 77, oldtime actor; after long illness (heart disease); in Kansas City, where he had lately been mildly successful as a radio commentator at symphony concerts. New York-born, trained for law, he became a professional actor at New Haven in 1879, played with the Barrymores' grandmother (Louisa Lane Drew), spent more than half a century in the theatre, was noted chiefly for his Gilbert & Sullivan roles and his perennial recitals of "Casey at the Bat." He was unsuccessful in cinema, which he regarded as a "fleeting novelty." His six wives included Actresses Edna Wallace...
...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...
...Manhattan, gaunt, long-faced Edith Hanson, 39, casually drank five free bottles of beer and borrowed $10 from Delicatessen Owners Robert Wolf and Alfred Wolitsky in the course of ordering 125 corned beef sandwiches, 50 liverwurst sandwiches ("peeled"), 75 limburger sandwiches ("smeared thin"), 150 turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson...
...Herr Karrl's appointment came apparently from the Ministry of Interior. No confirmation could be had that the Realmleader approved this or Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve a fresh drive for "sterilization of the unfit" launched by the Party last week with the news that German Science has produced "a harmless means of sterilizing...
Three days later this element boiled to the top of the Party. Berlin's stern but not markedly anti-Semitic Chief of Police, old Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, was ousted for not helping the Jew hunt along, replaced by that ruthless young huntsman Count Wolf von Helldorf. His first act was to decree that Berlin's Jewish-owned ice cream parlors which do most of their business in the evening must close at 7 p. m. Next the Storm Troops, who have recently been repressed, were again given "police duties" in Berlin to "purge the city." They...