Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serene Highness Prince Helie de Sagan, Due de Talleyrand-Perigord, husband of the former Anna Gould* of Manhattan, decided to sell his estate at Sagan in Silesia near the border of Brandenburg and about 100 miles southeast of Berlin. The estate, which was advertised in European papers, comprises Sagan, capital of the "principality," which has a population of 15,000 people, an immense outlying estate upon which 50,000 people live, many castles, a park and other properties. The whole estate is worth considerably more than a million dollars. Prince Helie, who inhabits an aesthetic pink marble house...
Professor Allard, whose schooling in France was in Lille, Lyon, and Paris, taught at Beauvels at Laval, Canada, and came to Harvard as instructor of French in 1906. Professor Lord received his first Harvard degree in 1906, studying subsequently at Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow. In 1921 he received an honorary doctor's degree from the University of Lemberg in Poland. Since 1910 he has taught at the University. He served in 1918-19 with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace as expert on Polish affairs, and was American civilian representative on the First Interallied Commission to Poland...
...Institution of a single gold bank with central office in Berlin, which with the exception of the State banks of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Baden, Saxony, shall be the sole bank of issue in Germany. The capital to be $100,000,000, part of which is to be raised in Germany and part abroad; the gold reserve to be at least 33 1-3% of the capital; the bank to be governed by a German Managing Board and a General Board of 14 members: seven Germans and a member from each of the following countries: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Holland...
...since Kaisers, Hindenburgs, Ludendorffs, Von Tirpitzes and Bethmann-Hollwegs ceased to shake the Fatherland has Germany been so profoundly moved by an individual. The death of Hugo Stinnes in Berlin following an operation for gallstones which was complicated by pleural pneumonia, stirred the whole country to the complete exclusion of all else...
...magnum opus, Pelleas et Mélisande, in which Edward Johnson and Lucrezia Bori will probably be the principals. For Jeritza, there is also a German novelty, Jenufa, by Leos Janacek, Czecho-Slovakia. This opera, first heard in Prague in 1916, has since been performed in Vienna and Berlin...