Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrasting with French joy was the raging fury of the German press last week. In Berlin the potent, Democratic Acht Uhr Abendblatt, even thought that Prime Minister Poincaré of France had "influenced'' Agent General Gilbert to write a "made to order report," and rashly charged that this perfidy had been arranged at the Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill and J. P. Morgan conference in Paris last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). As German anger mounted, imaginative correspondents cabled the suggestion that if Mr. Gilbert had remained in Berlin, last week, he would have been mobbed. As usual, however, the Agent General had left...
...Perhaps you play poker in your spare time?" asked a news imp. Still unruffled, the Agent General answered, "There's not much of that in Berlin now, but I do manage to get sufficient relaxation...
When cabled to Berlin, these guarded words were featured by the press, along with a report just issued by Commercial Attache of the U. S. Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
...Medieval tribulations, searching tests. After suitable apprenticeship he must wander about Germany, carpentering, for three years. As a full-fledged member of the Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains...
Died. Irving Berlin Jr., 24 days old, grandson of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay, son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Ellin Mackay Berlin of Manhattan; of a heart attack; on Christmas morning, in Manhattan...