Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, Chancellor (Prime Minister) Wilhelm Marx addressed the 65th annual German Catholic Congress at Breslau. On the first day, 130 Catholic nobles attended, on the second day, 87, on the third, 45, on the fourth, 12. The onetime King of Saxony attended on only the first three days. At Berlin, Liberal Republican editors were vexed at what they called "the anti-Republican behavior of the German Catholic nobles toward the Chancellor of the Republic...
Protector. In Berlin, policewomen recommend to girls a device invented by one Emil Pruess. Not to all girls, but to nice girls, above all to nice girls who are pretty. It is called in German, the "Anti-Masher." A nice girl, imperiled, perhaps disastrously, presses against her assailant's body an induction coil attached to the Pruess Battery, which she carries concealed under her dress. Low amperage of 1,000 volts destroys consciousness...
...York Aquarium, antiquated but visited by millions annually (and now being re-stuccoed) after years of supremacy in the U. S. A commission of experts was sent last autumn to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity in Berlin, lighting of tanks in London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such a museum by Dr. George F. Kunz...
...week of flying between London and Paris -1,539 passengers in 183 machines, with 35 tons of freight and baggage. Despatches from Germany announced extension of the European air mail network to reach Teheran, capital of Persia; a through route from Europe to Mesopotamia; a projected passenger service from Berlin clear across Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers and crew-will be carried inside enormous wings in machines of the future. Passengers will be able...
From February through August, 1919, some four hundred Germans met day after day, in the Theatre at Weimar, Thuringia. They, the National Assembly, dared not foregather in Berlin for fear of mob violence. Fear-spurred, they hastily elected Frederick Ebert first President of the Republic. Deliberate, prudent, they spent six months in evolving the Republican Constitution, consecrated the day of its formal promulgation as a national holiday to be celebrated pompfully each year...