Word: zeitung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture showed a man on skis propelling himself off the ground by puffing into a pair of rotors. It was a fine picture, a fine story and, unfortunately, a fine hoax, concocted as an April Fool joke by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung...
Until Adolf Hitler took it away from its owners last year because they were Jews, the Simon family's Frankfurter Zeitung was generally rated among the four or five greatest newspapers in the world. Fortnight later Kurt Max Oswald Simon, 52, an able publisher without a country or a publication, arrived in Mamaroneck, N. Y. to marry Mrs. Therese Heilner Prince, a well-to-do U. S. widow of 66. Last week, having thoroughly prospected the odd and unfamiliar U. S. publishing scene, dapper, chunky little Dr. Simon picked a magazine to publish. His choice was the literate, unprofitable...
German newsorgans which have died of Nazi censorship since Hitler came to power include famed Der Tag and the Vossische Zeitung...
Sonnemannstrasse was named long years ago for the Jewish founder of the Frankfurter Zeitung. Last week General Göring was about to marry Actress Emmy Sonnemann. Whatever she is, she does not look Jewish. During the War she clerked in a Hamburg candy shop. Göring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille. Three years ago Emmy was introduced to Hermann by Adolf...
...power by blowing into a box which supposedly actuated rotors strapped to his chest. He wore skis for landing gear, was shown just after the take-off with his friends trotting behind. The picture-as most editors learned too late-was a hoax concocted by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung for its annual April Fool issue (TIME, April...