Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After the revolution of November, 1918, Rosa Luxembourg, Jewish Pole, and lifelong revolutionary agitator, became an editor of Die Rote Fahne, and through that paper she was responsible with one Karl Liebknecht for the street fighting in Berlin in January, 1919. Both were imprisoned in The Hotel Eder and in transferring them to another prison the hostile crowd shot Liebknecht, brutally attacked the diminutive Rosa and finally shot her while she was insensible from the injuries she had sustained. Her body was thrown Into a canal and only recovered months later...
Lilli Lehmann is living in Grunewald, near Berlin. She has just celebrated her 75th birthday. In good health, but no longer able to sing, she devotes herself to teaching girls to become stars...
...book is based on personal interviews and data furnished by Professor Steinach himself and several of his disciples, including Dr. Peter Schmidt, of Berlin; Dr. Harry Benjamin, of New York; Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, of the Institute for Sexual Science, Berlin, and Dr. A. S. Blumgarten, chief of the endocrine department of the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, who has written a sympathetic introduction. It will not settle the scientific status of "rejuvenation" methods, but will doubtless have a ready sale among romantic laymen and laywomen...
...From Berlin it was reported that all the directors of the Krupp concern, who were imprisoned by the French last Spring, have been released...
Died. Rudolf E. A. Havenstein, 66, President since 1907 of the German Reichsbank, in Berlin, of heart failure. Director of the German War loans, he was popularly credited with a major share of responsibility for their success-as well as for the later decline of the mark...