Word: joachim
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Died. William Marion Cook, 75, famed pioneer Negro ragtime composer; after long illness; in Harlem. Born in Washington, Cook studied at 15 under the late great violinist Joseph Joachim in Berlin, played in the Berlin Symphony, returned to the U.S. and the music of his people, wrote scores for the late great minstrels Bert Williams and George Walker. In recent years he turned to choral composition, last year in Haiti collaborated with his son on an opera, St. Louis 'Ooman...
From Helsinki came more details of the Nazi plan to lose the war but win the peace. TIME Correspondent John Scott remained a week in Finland after the Germans took over, learned the argument which Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop advanced to lull the fears of Germans in the north. Cabled Scott...
With scarcely an audible sigh, mesmerized Finland sank into the arms of Nazi Germany. The Germans took over with only a few companies of second-rate occupation troops to back up the fast and foamy talk of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Nazis' proposition was simple: Germany would send six divisions if the Finns would keep up the fight and agree not to sign a separate peace...
...wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...which shouted to the world that the issue ran deeper than the Polish controversy. Said Pravda: From "reliable Greek and Yugoslav sources" in Cairo, it had learned that a secret meeting took place recently in a seacoast city of the Pyrenees between two British officials and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop-"to find out the conditions of a separate peace with the Germans. It is understood that the meeting did not remain without results...