Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...
...ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the front, Paris organized its own resistance under fiery, one-eyed Interior Minister Leon Gambetta. The city held out for four desperate months. Then Bismarck laid down his harsh peace terms to the provisional Government of Adolphe Thiers at Versailles. Radical Parisians, still armed for the siege and fearing a restoration of the monarchy, set up a revolutionary Commune on March 18, 1871. The city which had previously been bombarded by the Germans was again...
...Bismarck, N. Dak., Mrs. Augusta Gasck was given the choice of paying $10 a month alimony to her ex-husband, or going to jail. She chose jail...
Another $300 graduate prize was divided between Charles W. Vogel 4G of Cincinnati for an essay on the Bismarck Era and Alvah W. Sulloway 2L of Concord, New Hampshire writing on "The Political Thought of Robert Bellarime...
...Royal Society of St. George. First Lord Churchill had gone to sit in on the Allied Supreme War Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo...