Word: augsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...
...industries. Seldom do industries render direct financial aid to their governments. Last week four great electric corporations - Siemens-Schuckert, German General Electric, Bergmann Electrical Co. and Brown Boveri-lent $12,000,000 cash to the German State Railways, to electrify roads in the south of Germany (particularly the Augsburg-Stuttgart line) and incidentally reduce unemployment by providing work for 10,000 men for a year and a half...
...Augsburg, Germany, Annie Rossmeier, 16, and Fanny Schlegel, 18, were placing flowers on the grave of Annie's mother. The 300-lb. monument fell, killed Annie, wounded Fanny...
...prominent Roman Catholic flayed President Hoover for his greeting to the Lutherans, which was: Hoover to Lutherans. "I send cordial greetings to the Americans of Lutheran faith who are celebrating on October 31 the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the 400th anniversary of the reading of the Augsburg Confession from which date so many of the changes in point of view from older conceptions both of religion and government...
...Augsburg Confession admonishes Lutherans to "engage in just wars." But many modern Lutherans are thoroughgoing pacifists. The Milwaukee meeting decided: "The State is a divine institution, and under certain circumstances it may become the duty of a Christian to defend the State even at the cost of human life; but what these circumstances must be cannot be determined by the Church. Here the individual conscience alone can serve as a sufficient guide...