Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. He eyed peoples, thought about Immigration, thought about the U. S. labor market, in which, according to him, there are now only some 2,500,000 unemployed (Democrats say 4,000,000). On important subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan? "I am not an expert on financial situations," he said. What did he think about the Franco-British naval treaty? "I am not the Foreign Minister," he said...
...which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...
...Italian attention was focussed with little pleasure upon French military activities near the Italian border, in the Department of Haute Savoie. Crack infantry and artillery drilled, saluted, climbed mountains. The Berlin press saw a French menace to Italy...
Hard to resist, for Fascists, Monarchists and Bolshevists alike, is the lure of the U. S. tourist business. For many a year, Soviet Russia has looked enviously at U. S. millionaires squandering marks in Berlin, francs in Paris, lire in Rome. This year, through the tourist bureau Sovtorg-flot, the United Soviet Socialist Republics held out greedy Bolshevist hands. Concessions to arrange Russian tours went to three trans-Atlantic steamship lines (Cunard, French, Holland-American). About 700 tourists have proceeded, or are proceeding, Moscow-ward...
Charles Wakefield Cadman considered, George Gershwin dickered, Irving Berlin contracted last week to write musical themes for the new sound-pictures, the audible cinema. The field offers each composer good opportunity to apply his peculiar virtuosity. Each will certainly receive rich fees. The movies can afford to pay. A single picture house, the Roxy Theatre, in Manhattan, rarely receives less than $110,000 a week from admissions. Its income for four weeks of Street Angel (with Movietone) was $479,000. That, however, was a record...