Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did Court Composer Franz Joseph Haydn hint to his employer, Prince Esterhazy, that autumn was well along, and that he and his musicians were chafing to get back to Vienna...
...Past medalists: Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, onetime High Commissioner for German Refugees James Grover McDonald, Executive Director Estelle Sternberger of World Peaceways, Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel...
Blossom Time, a perennial, was back on Broadway for the first time since 1931. The old-fashioned operetta, full of hideous buffoonery, has a score-based on some of Franz Schubert's loveliest melodies-as appealing as ever...
...Conference was attended by the Harvard Committee, and by representatives of undergraduate organizations in 30 other colleges. Speakers included Franz Boas, leading American anthropologist who spoke on "The Nazi Race Myth," Dorothy Thompson, and James G. McDonald, former High Commissioner of the League of Nations. A concrete result of the conference was the erection of a permanent intercollegiate Committee which will stimulate interest in other colleges. Offices are maintained in New York City...
...Stark statement made many scientists thoroughly angry. They formed a committee, chose as its spokesman "Papa Franz'' Boas, 80-year-old Columbia University anthropologist. Papa Franz, a Jew of German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...