Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suave Dane. Elected president of the Assembly was that suave and charming crony of King Christian X of Denmark, His Excellency Herluf Zahle, Minister for Denmark at Berlin. Minister Zahle was Denmark's first delegate to the League in 1920, and resumed that post in the years...
Therefore a Berlin taxi driver brought suit, last week, against a stingy "Polish" businessman who refused to give him more than 50 marks ($11.90), when the honest chauffeur found and restored $37,000 in unregistered, negotiable securities. The reward now legally demanded is 16,000 marks...
...Berlin, last fortnight, European film producers met in weighty conclave. When each and every one had taken his seat in the auditorium of the Prussian Diet, the First International Film Congress was declared to be in session. More strictly honest, President Leopold Gutmann would have substituted "European" for "International." For the U. S. which produces 57% of the world's pictures was not represented. Deliberately, invitations had been mailed to U. S. producers too late to allow them to reach Berlin for the Congress...
...Congress was no less commanding than its position at Neubabelsberg. Behind the scenes was the slightly sinister figure of Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, owner of UFA and the most powerful publisher in Germany. Among his agencies are the Telegraphen Union Internationale, greatest independent agency in Europe and the Berlin newspapers Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, Der Tag and Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (official organ of the German Foreign Office...
Hugo Stinnes, son of the late Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, was arrested and jailed last week in Berlin, charged with attempting to defraud the German Government. His secretary, also arrested but later released, accused him of wanting to sell falsely registered war bonds...