Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this distribution of gifts by fairy godfather Hitler, there was wild talk of a march on Berlin, the destruction of the Treaty of Versailles, the deposition of President Ebert and the Berlin Government...
...swaggered in or out of anywhere. The Hitler storm troops were in possession of the city and the sun was shining brightly on the following day. " Chancellor" Hitler and " Commander-in-Chief" von Ludendorff were within the War Office when the loyal Bavarian Reichswehr, commanded by the " disloyal" (to Berlin) General von Lossow, stormed the building, and after a short battle the "beer hall revolt" was crushed...
...Europe he sang in Paris, Vienna, Rome, and Berlin. In addition to a regular concert in London, he sang for King George at the latter's special request. He is a graduate of Fisk University near Nashville, Tennessee, and trained his voice in Boston under the instruction of Mr. Arthur Hubbard...
There is no reason why the Crown Prince should not return to Berlin. Nothing in the Versailles Treaty prevents him from so doing. The attitude of the German Government concerning his exile has been that he went voluntarily to Holland in order to avoid causing trouble to his country. His latest appeal to the Government was said to have been made on the basis of the permission granted him by the then Chancellor Wirth. He also pointed out that " he considers it necessary for the sake of his children, and that it is also his right to return...
Fabulous tales are told concerning the revolutionary currency in this country--how it was carried about in bushel baskets and used for wall paper. But the Germans have selfishly tarnished the gold of that aura. Only a few days ago someone in Berlin offered an American dollar in a restaurant for a square meal and was presented with three, not only square but pressed down and running over. A Swiss firm, deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency...