Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ironmaster.' . . . Stinnes never was an admirer of the Kaiser. In 1913 he refused to participate in the presentation of a memorial because, as he said to me, he considered the Kaiser as the biggest misfortune of the German Empire. . . . He lives in a modest little house in Berlin-the same house that was occupied by his parents. He dresses with almost studied simplicity. . . . August Thyssen, next to Stinnes, is the greatest business man in Germany." The next in order of greatness, he said, are Herren Carl Friedrich Siemens, head of the electrical industry, and Felix Deutsch, brother...
...Ludendorff-Hitlerites are being stirred by their leaders because of Dr. von Kahr's "ultra-cautiousness" and his "friendship with Berlin parliamentarianism...
German currency is worth almost nothing yet $12 in American money was paid for good seats at the National Opera in Berlin when Mattia Battistini, the famous Italian baritone, now over 60, made his only appearance of the season. He sang the role of Scarpia in Tosca...
...Council with resolutions asking all the Governments to continue to support Dr. Nansen, head of the League movement in support of refugees. The report itself expressed thanks to the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Manhattan for help in establishing a scientific institute for the Russian exiles in Berlin; thanked the French Government for encouraging Russian immigration; stated that the High Commission is taking energetic steps to obtain the evacutaion to the U. S. of several hundred thousand refugees in Poland, Rumania, Constantinople. "Unfortunately," the report added, "the High Commission is prevented by the immigration restrictions from effecting this evacuation before...
Foreign Minister Stresemann, in a speech in Berlin, said: "We are the sick limb of the European body politic." He mentioned a long list of indignities from which Germany had been forced to suffer and stated that Germany had never recognized and would never recognize the legality of the Ruhr occupation...