Word: duisburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Black Airmail. At Duisburg, Germany, one Hermann Pattberg, rich manufacturer, received a package containing a carrier pigeon and a note ordering him to tie a 5,000-mark ($1,191) bank note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched...
Last week when a big subterranean main began to hiss softly at Duisburg, in the Ruhr, 40 people were gassed by the leak and five (including babes) met Death...
...town hall park at Duisburg, Germany, was a statue- "Kneeling Woman"-one of the best works of Sculptor Lehmkuhl. Connoisseurs thought her inspiring, chaste, beautiful. Another group of townsfolk thought that she needed clothing, so they occasionally wrapped her in bedsheets at night. Police were assigned to protect her. Last week some vulgarians ousted the police, dragged "Kneeling Woman" from her pedestal, dismembered her, carried her away in pieces...
...declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
Shrewd, canny, hard to wheedle, the tax collector of Duisburg yielded only after much persuasion. From "ordinary singers" he is empowered to collect a 20% municipal tax on concert receipts; from "well-known singers" he may collect only...