Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveling court set up on an automobile is now visiting markets in Berlin to punish profiteers. Plain clothes policemen patrol the market place, and on finding that an excessive price has been charged, or on hearing any complaint they immediately arrest the offending dealer and take him before the court. Justice is meted out on the spot, and the result is that prices have been considerably reduced. The city officials hope that these courts will end the food riots which have resulted from the exorbitant demands made by the merchants...
...announced from Berlin that 106 railwaymen, their families and furniture were evicted from their homes in Trier in ten minutes...
...first reprisal was carried out by the police who appeared with orders from the Berlin municipal housing bureau at the apartment of M. de Villemus, correspondent of the Echo de Paris, in the Friedrichs Wilhelmstrasse and threw him, bag and baggage, into the street...
...invasion of her coal fields, but not, apparently, of her studios. The younger painters still follow the lead of Paris modernists, in spite of propaganda and the mutter of the Ruhr. According to foreign critics, German art today is French. But art of any sort exists with difficulty in Berlin. Statistics recently published show that nine-tenths of the painters and sculptors face starvation. The situation has reached a crisis-which the government ignores. The only help, thus far, has come from America. Munich and Vienna duplicate Berlin. Hundreds of German and Austrian artists have already entered the coal mines...
Decameron Nights, after nearly a year's run in Drury Lane, is to be withdrawn in March. Its place will be taken by the many-scened Johannes Kreisler, which will be produced under the name of Angelo. It has already been produced in Berlin and New York...