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While the German Empire lasted, its national anthem (sung to the same music as Britain's "God Save the King") was Heil dir im Siege skranz-"Hail thou whose victor's crown safeguards thy realm's re- nown; all hail to thee [i.e. the Kaiser]!" After the Fatherland became a Republic, its Socialist first President, Friedrich Ebert...
decreed as the national anthem: Deutschland, Deutschland liber Alles, liber Alles in der Welt! Of this no hard & fast translation is possible, since Germans themselves have meant several different things by iiber Alles since the words were written...
Died- John Charles Linthicum. 65, U. S. Representative from Maryland, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the unofficial Democratic "beer bloc"; of diabetes; in Baltimore. An infrequent speaker in the House, he was a champion of "The Star-Spangled Banner," officially adopted as the national anthem in March...
Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest...
...Canada, down the Yukon and up the Tanana River, looking for gold. They were among Fairbanks' first settlers. Bob Crawford first studied music on a mail order fiddle, with a French exile named Vic Durand. His first song, "My Northland," has been adopted by Alaskans as an unofficial anthem...