Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However...
Throughout the week London, Paris and Berlin papers speculated at length on "who stole the document?"; and the grave international aspects of the affair were set forth in many a paper, including Berlin's Democratic Morgenpost...
...Irving Berlin's latest is ROSES OF YESTERDAY and is done nicely by Paul Whiteman for Columbia...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
...Berlin, one Herr Parlatus announced that he had talked continuously for 43 hours and would continue to do so until he had talked for 150 hours. Then he would be champion...