Word: schneider
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...penny arcade (Penny Arcade). But until Ceiling Zero came along, no playwright had felt qualified to dramatize the excitement and color surrounding the operations of a commercial airline. That job has fallen to Lieut. Commander Frank Wead, U. S. N. retired, leader of the Navy's 1923 Schneider Cup squadron, who turned to fiction and the cinema after he broke his neck by tumbling down a stairway at his San Diego home nine years...
...absence of all proof, Nazis pack-jammed the Munich beer hall in. which Corporal Hitler and General Ludendorff attempted the abortive putsch of 1923. Neither was present last week, but a lawyer friend of Ludendorff, Herr Robert Schneider, worked the crowd up to frenzy with attacks on the Papacy "for actively cooperating to encircle Germany in 1914 and provoke the World War!" This villainy Orator Schneider, who occasionally got his Popes and their characteristics mixed in the torrent of his harangue, seemed to attribute chiefly to peace-loving Pius X. Shouts of "Traitor!" and "Expel him!" filled the beer hall...
...inseparably and discreetly as the senior class of a divinity school. One night their limousines purred over to Nice where they attended the Opera en masse. Another day they went for a ride as far as Menton, alighted and strolled about two & two, discussing the affairs of Krupp, Schneider, Vickers, Skoda...
...Krupp or Schneider was present, though Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Eugene Schneider were represented by trusted agents. Only the exalted French munitions family of de Wendel candidly sent a representative bearing its great name, eldest brother Humbert de Wendel. Ostensibly the 107 delegates of Europe's munitioneers were meeting as the International Railmakers' Association, and on the Riviera also was that blithe international railmaker, Charles M. Schwab. Explained he: "My doctors say I react favorably to the excitement of roulette...
...Recovery Board's Samuel Clay Williams, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Leo T. Crowley, National Labor Relations Board's Francis Biddle, National Emergency Council's Donald Richberg, Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Joseph H. Choate Jr. Tail-enders in precedence were Mrs. Malvina Thompson Schneider, Mrs. James M. Helm and Miss Marguerite Le Hand, private secretaries to Mrs. Roosevelt and the President...