Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton for three years past has been Ambassador at Berlin. In a way Mr. Houghton is in accordance with the usual type of man appointed to the Court of St.James's. He was born in Cambridge, Mass. He was educated at Harvard. He is wealthy enough not to mind the fact that his salary of $17,500 will, at London, be only a drop in the bucket of his expenses. On the other hand, he is not a literary man, nor is he a publisher, a politician, an editor, a lawyer-but a manufacturer...
...based its strong attitude toward both these charges upon the fact that the Experts' Plan was designed to collect all that is collectable from Germany and that it had specifically reserved in the Treaty of Berlin (separate treaty of peace between the U. S. and Germany) those rights which it would have had had it signed the Treaty of Versailles...
...Tageblalt of Berlin had it that the War Lord was living at Archangelskoye, a suburb of Moscow, in the palace of Prince Yusupov. This newspaper claimed that he was sick abed with consumption and stomach trouble, whereas he has usually been reported as suffering from some bronchial affliction. The same paper declared that the Bolshevik Triumvirate-Stalin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, all enemies of the War Lord-was conducting a campaign of hate against him by means of flaming illuminated signs...
Before her as she wrote her adver-tisement came "the earnest faces of the 14,000 students of the University of Berlin, representing 17 nationalities, before whom I was invited ta sing and speak by the official heads of the University (I being the only American artist who had been thus invited)." And she wound up: "Never have I been so imbued with the desire to bring joy, to elevate the children through my art, my, pen and my deep religious convictions; and I am more earnest, interested and active than ever since I know that thought is force...
...Berlin, the Cabinet marched in a body to the Presidential mansion and expressed to the President their unbounded faith in him and their gratitude for his great patriotism. But to the man-in-the-street, the verdict was summed up: "President Ebert committed treason against Germany, but you must go to jail for calling him a traitor." Indeed, if the President were guilty of treason, it would seem that Editor Rothardt ought not to have been sentenced; conversely, it goes by implication that the sentence against Rothardt exculpates the President...