Word: germane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...around Besenhausen on the border between East and West Germany were veiled in sunlit haze one afternoon last week. On the Soviet side of the crossing point, a tired horde of D.P.s moved forward as the barrier pole swung up. On the British side, British officers and customs controllers, German border guards, police, priests, nuns, nurses and refugee administration officials looked at the sad group facing them...
Need. At Besenhausen, German officials had received a list of 200 refugees ready for transfer from a Soviet zone camp at Heiligenstadt. Only 101 of the 200 were on the "Link" lists. Allied officials asked the East German authorities to send the 101 to the crossing point. But the Communists, for reasons of their own, sent nearly 300. Said a British official: "I'll take all that are on my list. That's all I can do. I'll send for another list to try to take care of the others...
...precise, monocled German psychiatrist attempted to convince three U.S. judges-Fred Cohn, John Speight and Herman Elegant-that Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...
Timely Trip. Koerner hoped to be a carnival barker, cook, singer, and then an engineer ("I flunked the exam for engineering school, which was a blessing"), finally settled for commercial art. His art teacher in Vienna recalls him as a hard worker with a talent for parodying the German goose step. Koerner spent his summer vacations walking and sketching in Italy, France, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. At 23, he crossed the Alps into Italy for the last time. The Nazis had entered Austria...
...World War II, the company added some unusual new services. From the Argentine it supplied the State Department with the travel plans of every pro-Hitler German in Buenos Aires. Before the U.S. entered the war, the company's Berlin office ran an underground escape service to Switzerland for aliens trapped in the country. The company promptly started expanding again near war's end. When the U.S. Army marched into Rome in 1944, an American Express official marched in with it, opened the old Rome office for business the next...