Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hemorrhage was golden. Because the Chamber has voted down Cabinet after Cabinet rather than balance the budget (TIME. Oct. 30, et ante), gold was pouring out of France at the rate of 100,000,000 francs a day, in flight to London, Amsterdam, Geneva and even Berlin. The Deputies pointed to the Bank of France gold reserves of nearly 80 billion francs and contended that the drain of 100 million francs a day could continue for at least another month before becoming "dangerous." This would give time, they remarked, to construct more Cabinets and "find a real majority...
...Berlin last week the Government promulgated, to take effect Jan. 2, 1934, "the strictest law in the world against cruelty to animals" according to the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. For "willful cruelty" to an animal the punishment will be two years in jail. Domestic animals may not be simply abandoned, nor may dogs be trained to chase cats, foxes or other animals. Dogs' and horses' tails cannot be bobbed. Bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, leading spirit in the Nazi be-kind-to-animals crusade, was again drawn last week by German cartoonists...
...This trial began in Leipzig," he shouted, "then moved to Berlin, and now we are back in Leipzig but nothing ever happens. I don't agree to that! I burned down the Reichstag and I want to have my sentence-twenty years in prison or Death! I have been questioned for over eight months. I want something to happen! This trial has now been going on for two months. How long is it going to take to get a verdict...
Promised the Havana post at the first shuffle of the New Deal.'Diplomat Caffery is quite as experienced a Career Man as his predecessor. Service has taken him from Caracas to Stockholm, from Teheran to Tokyo, from Berlin to Bogota. He can cope effectively with the Latin American mind...
When the American Olympic Association met last week in Washington everyone knew it would be asked to do something about the status of German Jewish athletes and the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. When the meeting adjourned, many a delegate was still not clear as to exactly what he had done...