Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof was crowded last week with worried tourists struggling for tickets and berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan?almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise...
Charles Clark Younggreen of Milwaukee, at the culminating Berlin banquet of the International Advertising Association of which he is president (TIME, Aug. 26), beheld a spider crawling out from beneath his right cuff. Last week, his arm. spider-bitten, swollen, infected, required lancing, draining, dressings, rest...
Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
...professionals who years ago sang Schnitzelbank in its native beergardens while learning the difference between Pilsener and Münchener and putting finishing touches on their education at Berlin, Heidelberg or Güttingen, were as interested as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia's president, in a report which he issued last week in behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (of which he is also president). It was a report comparing pre-War and post-War enrollments in the German colleges. It could be tabulated as follows...
...Berlin, Mr. Younggreen made a ringing speech in which he called advertising "the Mercury of the Gods of Industry...