Word: berlins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...short time ago Mrs. Coffin, wife of the U. S. Consul General at Berlin, Miss Goldsmith, Assistant U. S. Trade Commissioner to Germany, Mrs. Conger, wife of the Berlin correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, were traveling in a Cologne-Berlin train. Into their compartment jumped Herr Kurt Korthaus, a member of the Reichstag. He objected to the number of bags on the rack. He told the ladies to remove them. They said they were too heavy, suggested that he call the conductor to remove them or do it himself...
...arrival at Berlin, the ladies took their case to responsible quarters and the upshot of the unpleasant experience was that U. S. Ambassador Houghton called upon Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and brought the matter to his attention. The latter promised to investigate...
...billboards in Berlin appeared the opening announcement of Hinkemann, a play by Ernest Toller. The public were requested if they did not like the show, to leave quietly or be thrown out by a special guard of boxers and wrestlers. The play had just been withdrawn from Dresden where it created numerous disturbances. Hence the precautions...
...content during the war to plough the lonely furrow. The coming of peace brought reconciliation but also new battles. For the next four years he was engaged in a struggle with Communism, with the ideas disseminated by the Russian Revolution--a struggle culminating in his duel with Radek in Berlin, April 1923, a struggle in which there was not only vindication for his honesty but success for his effort. The English Labor Party has been cleansed of the taint of Communism and Direct Action under which it labored during the post-war years...
Pugilist Breitenstraeter, heavyweight champion of Germany, entered the ring in Berlin for a 20-round bout. His opponent was Paul Sampson, né (in Germany) Samson Koerner. Koerner was once a stoker on an American ship. In 1920, in this country, boxing under the name of Sampson, he gave Gene Tunney, American light heavyweight champion, a terrific bout. The next year Tom Gibbons knocked him out in two rounds. Farmer Lodge (TIME, Mar. 3) did the same...