Word: koenig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid myself under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans have just driven from power [TIME, Oct. 2]. ... I could not in conscience support the stupid, arrogant [Tammany] leadership that forces upon the city the well-intentioned but impotent figure of the present Mayor. ... As I stand before you, I owe allegiance to no political boss...
...interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard is relaxing too easily from his position of stern and examining rectitude. Possibly Mr. Villard is right, and Mr. Blanshard is right...
Died. Captain Paul Koenig, 66, Wartime commander of the famed German merchant submarine Deutschland; after long illness; in Gnadau, Germany. In July 1916 he startled the world by running the Deutschland through the Allied blockade, bobbing up off the Virginia Capes with a valuable cargo of dyestuffs. While he unloaded and reloaded at Baltimore, eight Allied warships waited in fanwise formation outside the three-mile limit. The Deutschland slipped through them, carried Captain Koenig home to a triumph that was redoubled when he made another round trip to the U. S. the following autumn...
...Herr Koenig knew that the Italian rifles must be returned to Italy? Director Seefehlner had arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish...
Loudly and vehemently Deputy Berthold Koenig spurned this idea, reported the entire conversation to the foreign Press and to Chancellor Dollfuss who suspended Railway Director Seefehlner with considerable embarrassment, promised Britain and France that the rifles, cross his heart, will really be sent back to Italy. Viennese newspapers scare-headed that ousted Director Seefehlner faces trial for high treason...