Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...farm there should be a brief period during the day when everyone who is loyal to the flag should stand up and be counted. Flags should everywhere be unfurled. At 12 o'clock noon, factory whistles and church bells should send forth a volume of sound that will reach Berlin. Every band in the country will then play the "Star Spangled Banner," while people stand at attention. In the evening in the churches, halls and theatres, the people can gather for meetings of inspiration. Regiments of the National Army may parade in cities near the cantonments...
Dean Gay was born in Detroit, Mich., on October 27, 1867, and attended the University of Michigan, from which he obtained his A.B. degree in 1890, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin 12 years later. He has been Professor of Economics at the University since...
...served to emphasize the seriousness of the revolt. When the Government finds it necessary to court-martial industrial workers in a building closed to the public and guarded by bayonets, its alarm is great. It may very likely be that bayonets and machine guns may keep the mob of Berlin and other cities in subjection for the time being, but this will not destroy industrial demands and deep dissatisfaction. The Socialist paper "Vorwaerts" is right when it says that this movement comes from the workers' fear that they have been misled...
...Whether or not this has been the driving force in the recent captures makes little difference. The important point is that the Austrian Army is being repulsed on that front where it seemed to have secured the ascendency. The struggle for the Plave region far more than strikes in Berlin is cause for optimism...
Professor Schofield has been Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard since 1906. He was the third Harvard Exchange Professor at the University of Berlin and in 1911 lectured at the Sorbonne and the University of Copenhagen...