Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purchase embassies and legations at a price of not more than $500,000 each in Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Tokyo...
Political circles in Berlin predicted an era of political calm, but many are the thorns that will prick the new dictatorship when it begins to function. At all events the Government seems safe until the next general elections, which should take place next Summer...
...playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats...
...Berlin Security Police were served with tanks, armored cars, hand grenades and rifles and given orders to shoot and throw to kill if the Communists staged a demonstration. The demonstration took place but was easily broken up by the heavily armed police, with comparatively few casualties...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, slacker: "In Berlin I filed a damage suit for $150,000 against Corliss Hooven Griffis, an American Army officer now in jail at Mossbach in connection with an attempt to kidnap me last Summer (TIME...