Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the musty stuffed owls, elephant skeletons and glass-eyed bears at Bonn's Koenig Museum, Western Germany's leaders met last week. They displayed more unity and guts than anyone had had a right to hope three months...
...opening ceremonies over, the assembly got down to business in the shiny, modern auditorium of Bonn's Pedagogical Institute. What followed was as refreshing an exhibition of parliamentary vigor as Europe had had in years. Up rose portly Socialist Carlo Schmid to pledge his party's cooperation with the Christian Democrats (who hold a slight majority). In the past, the Social Democrats had fought the Christian Democrats tooth & nail in every election; but the Berlin airlift had galvanized both parties into common enthusiasm and common sense...
...newest German universities, was too "young" for the honor of being first to get U.S. professors since Hitler. This complaint cut no ice at Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins' 56-year-old Chicago, youngest of top U.S. universities. Eventually other American lecturers will teach at Munich, Heidelberg, Bonn and Marburg...
Died. Dr. Wilhelm Marx, 83, scholarly Chancellor of pre-Nazi Germany (1923-24, 1926-28), who tried to solve the knotty reparations problem by agreeing to the Dawes Plan, in 1925 the unsuccessful opponent of Hindenburg for the presidency; in Bonn, Germany. The Nazis indicted him for fraud but they never pressed the charges, allowed him to sink into obscurity, where American troops found him in 1945, "bewildered by events," ignored by his people, all but forgotten by the world...
...rambunctious history began one day in 1895 when blue-eyed, roly-poly Harry Tammen, bartender at Denver's Windsor Hotel, strolled into the littered city room of the old Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy, wax-mustached Frederick. Gilmer Bonfils (pronounced bonn-fees), a dashing promoter who had just cleaned up $800,000 in the notorious "Little Louisiana" lottery. To weary Postmen playing poker, Harry Tammen drawled: "Don't let us disturb you but we've just taken over this paper...