Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite, made much of his money in munitions, provided in his will that the prize fund should be transferred to "safe securities," which the executors have interpreted to mean first mortgage bonds. The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee chosen by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), while the other four prizes (Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) are determined by Swedes. Three weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people...
...obscure last stand against Hitlerism, many German parents have been forbidding their children to join the Hitler Youths and German Maidens who are excused from school one day each week for "party activities." Last week such parents sighed despairingly as blunt Minister of Education Bernhard Rust decreed that every German schoolchild without exception must study one day each week and take examinations on the anti-Jewish, un-Christian and pro-Nazi propaganda works of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, august Supervisor of the Intellectual and Spiritual Training of the Nazi Party...
...Allen; L. Allis, Jr.; A. W. Asmuth, Jr.; C. L. Barker; R. T. Benedict; G. S. Bernhard; A. S. Blodget, Jr.; H. H. Bristol; W. L. Brown; L. Burbank; T. B. Campion; A. B. Carlson; H. L. Carstein; K. Chappelow; E. T. Clarke; E. L. Cutter; E. C. Dahl; J. I. Dunton; W. F. Eberlein; G. Eddy; D. H. Ellis; E. Emerson; J. W. Erhard; H. Estey; G. Fraunhar; V. Fulmer; R. Getsinger; C. Gilliland; D. S. Glueck; H. S. Gruening; G. K. Hall; W. C. Hall; H. J. Hayden; C. Hennings; J. C. Hopkins; E. B. Hubbard; H. Huston...
...Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded 31 times. Italy was honoured twice,* playwrights seven times.* Each of these categories was upped one day last week when the Swedish Academy singled out Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello to receive $41,318 of the late, dynamite-making Alfred Bernhard Nobel's money and the distinction of being Literary...
With such backing any conference could do much. Star Delegates who worked each other up to more and more spacious plans included Editor Samuel Margoshes of Manhattan's Yiddish newsorgan The Day and such eminent Jews escaped from the German Fatherland as Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Georg Bernhard. Sessions were mostly secret. Leaks grew more and more exciting. Finally correspondents flashed that a "Super-Government" of World Jewry was in course of formation...