Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chancellor Cuno made a speech in the Reichstag. He said unkind things about the French. The Wilhelmstrasse had the speech translated into the principal foreign languages. German merchants abroad offered to distribute copies of the speech. Cases of Cuno speeches left Berlin bound for the outer world. They arrived at the frontier. The German customs officials sent them back to Berlin, because no export license had been issued. This is very necessary. Cuno had the law passed...
Married. Barbara Kemp, opera star, to Prof. Max von Schillings, general director of the (German) State Opera, at Berlin. He composed Mono, Lisa, in which Miss Kemp starred last season in Manhattan...
...Institute of Politics, which will open at Williams College (Mass.) on July 27, will be addressed, for the first time, by a German. Count Harry Kreisler, Germany's first Minister to Poland and leader of the "Nie-Wieder-Krieg" demonstrations in Berlin, is the German representative. Viscount Birkenhead and Sir Edward Grigg, formerly political secretary to Lloyd George, will attend from Great Britain, and Canon Ernest Dimnet, professor in the College Stanislas at Paris, from France. Sir Paul Vinogradov, the eminent professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, formerly a resident of Moscow, will deliver a course of public lectures...
...announced in Berlin that the Government intends to issue 210,000,000,000 marks of aluminum coins. At present there are some 200 mark coins in circulation, but with the new issue 500 and 1,000 mark coins will appear. Before the war the only coins in circulation were one and two pfennig copper coins, 5, 10 and 25 pfennig nickel pieces and 10 and 20 mark gold pieces...
...Berlin, Heinrich Kiihlemann was arrested for a series of petty thefts. Nothing extraordinary in this. Later investigation showed that he had made collections of dictionaries and grammars in 15 languages, none of which he studied; 16 large piles of police reports on accidents; enormous stacks of birth, marriage and death statistics; multitudes of obscene photographs. His sentence was not published...