Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spats and squabble-across the large U-shaped table of the Council of the League of Nations kept a gavel rattling sharply, last week, as order was repeatedly commanded by Chairman Senor Aristines Aguero y Betancourt of Cuba. He, popular in Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...Berlin-Paris by the oldest hackman of Wannsee [a Berlin suburb], who had the honor of making his last voyage in Fiacre 120 from Berlin to Paris because horses are destined to extinction...
...Once, at Urga, Mongolia," said Frau lein Stinnes, "we had to pay 140 marks ($336) for 106 litres of gasoline (28 gallons)." From San Francisco petite Motorist Stinnes proposed to sail for Valparaiso, Chile, whence she will motor northward to Washington, D. C., and thence proceed home to Berlin...
...natural that these surplus funds will be placed in outside channels seeking good investment. "I do not share the opinion that the present movement of the stock market is due to any one man or group of individuals but is due to world-wide prosperity. . . . In Paris, London and Berlin good securities have had terrific advances. The world's capital is seeking profitable investment...