Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This state of affairs attracted the acrimonious pen of George Bernhard, Socialist editor of the Vossische Zeltung of Berlin, who has on occasion found words of censure to heap on the head of the great and notorious "Coke-monger," Herr Hugo Stinnes. Said Herr Bernhard: "The mass of German people do not seem quite aware of what causes foreigners annoyance at this vulgar display. It is not the fact that there is still wealth in Germany. There are rich and poor everywhere, and no sensible person will blame a man simply because he is rich if he does his duty...
...Food conditions in Germany were acute even when I was over there last summer," said Professor Lord. "In Munich and Berlin even then it was a common sight to see crowds camping out all night in front of the butcher shops. The general feeling is that starvation is certain this winter. Conditions become worse every week. And of course the financial status of the country is ludicrous...
...lowest birthrate ever recorded in Berlin was that for the third quarter of 1923-nine per thousand. During 1922 there were about 8,000 less births than deaths. The cause for the decrease in births were general poverty (which makes an addition to the family a luxury), bad housing, increased cost of medical attendance...
Died. Richard Witting, brother of Maximilian Harden, famed German publicist, onetime friend of the ex-Kaiser, onetime Oberburgomaster of Posen, later a radical pacifist and antimonarchist; in Berlin...
Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuck, 82, oldest Social Democrat in Germany, friend of Karl Marx, La Salle and Engels, Honorary President of the Weimar General Assembly in 1919 and member of the Reichstag since 1884, in Berlin...