Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain. Three Belgium-bound shiploads of barley from North Africa were unloaded in France. Seven thousand tons of maize, destined for Antwerp, were unloaded at Lisbon. It was too early to guess how Belgium's Congo mines would fare. Meantime, while Belgian purchasing commissions raced to London, Paris, Berlin, The Hague, New York, two German purchasing agents rushed to Brussels...
...cavalry general stationed in Berlin, he grew up there, got the best schooling to be had in Germany, at the Französisches Gymnasium of Berlin, and in 1900, aged 19, became a lieutenant in the Royal Elizabeth Guard Grenadiers. The Grenadiers wore corsets and led a gay social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared...
...workout for the giant Red Army, the invasion of Poland was only a brief sprint. For its significance-the partitioning of collapsed Poland-observers read the political dispatches from Moscow and Berlin...
...last fortnight, 5,000 wounded German soldiers arrived in Berlin from the Polish front. Only a handful of doctors and nurses were at the station to help them, and there were neither stretchers nor ambulances enough to go around. Aided by scores of "Hitler girls," the bandaged men were bundled into busses, trucks and taxis, driven to hospitals already overcrowded...
...Public Office." "The pressure upon me to accept public office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, U. S. Ambassador to London or Berlin, U. S. Secretary of State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom for President came in 1920, when his supporters, to bring him down to the voters...