Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Berlin committed to the plan, through the adoption of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's Gold Discount Bank Bill by the Reichstag just before its dissolution*, and Poincare's Government somewhat unwillingly pledged to accept the plan, not only "in principle" but in effect, by the conditions of Morgan's $100,000,000 loan†, the main obstacles to the work of the Drafting Committee were removed...
Karel Kapek was born in 1890 in Northern Bohemia, and since then he has never travelled far beyond the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, although his plays, most prominent of which are "R. U. R." and "The World We Live In," have been presented in translation in London, New York and Berlin. At present he is at Prague serving as director of the Vinohradski Theatre...
...City Fathers of Berlin are pleased. They are taxing dancing. In January there flowed into the city coffers $400,000; in February, $475,000. "Berlin is dancing itself out of its financial troubles...
Mahammad Djemal Bey, Albanian, medical student, studying in Berlin, stabbed his former fiancee in the arm because she had jilted him. For that he was arrested. At his trial he said: "The law of my country says that disgrace can be atoned for only by a drop of blood. It is not right to humiliate me by ignoring me. I had the right to take her blood in retaliation for the wrong she had done...
...French chemist, Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm, Germany has a new poison gas. It is colorless, odorless, can penetrate a gas mask, is one of the deadliest known to science. It embodies carbon monoxide. Dr. Heinrich Brauns, Minister of Labor, speaking before an audience of German Catholics in Berlin, said that there were 5,000,000 unemployed persons in Germany and 15,000,000 persons dependent on charity for their support. The population of Germany is about 60,000,000. "The National League of German Officers knows but one great aim- preparation for the day that is sure to come." These...