Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day alert Peorians learned that Lincoln Eyre, able correspondent of the New York Times, had cabled an interview which William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson had just given him in Berlin, Germany (TIME, April 5, GERMANY...
...York Times, hastily queried, vouched for the veracity of Mr. Eyre, secured from Wayne B. Wheeler (super-prohibitionist syndicated by the New York Times) a statement that Pussyfoot was certainly abroad, probably in Berlin...
...Berlin, in the Circus Busch, one Labero, hypnotist, made passes at a python. Unentranced, the python grasped Labero's hand so firmly in its jaws that it broke off a tooth. Dismissing the python, Labero put to sleep crocodiles, hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, a boa constrictor. Came an eagle. The eagle fastened its beak deeply into the hand gnawed by the python, but toppled over unconscious at the same moment that Labero fainted from loss of blood. The next subject on the bill was a lion. Said critics: "It's lucky Labero fainted...
...consider the advisability of an appeal to President Coolidge. They were vexed when informed that the President could not suspend the U. S. prohibition laws to rescue the hard pressed German producer. They were outraged when William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson,' famed itinerant U. S. dry crusader, arrived at Berlin, last week and predicted: "Within 25 years Germany will have become so dry they will be putting the last steins in museums...
Died. Konstantin Fehrenbach, 74, fifth Chancellor of the German Reich, President of the Reichstag under the imperial regime, a statesman of the first rank in both imperial and republican affairs; at Berlin, of pneumonia...