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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemned, Herr Josef Otto Klems, born in the Rhineland, later a French Lieutenant, finally Chief of Staff to Abd-el-Krim, asked last week that he be sent into life exile on Réunion Island, where Krim is now enduring that fate. The Court Martial replied that Herr Klems must suffer the fate of a deserter from the French army, ordered him shot...
...evaded his military service in Germany. ... By 1920 I was a lieutenant. I fought very loyally for the French. ... I risked my life for them thousands of times, but that meant nothing. Some of the officers could hardly keep from calling me 'Boche,' all because I was born in Germany. At last, at a little dinner in Fez, a certain French captain got drunk and called me a Boche. I knocked him down, and got out before the guards came to arrest me [and I deserted to the Moroccans...
...Socialist municipal government of Vienna announced last week that to each babe of poor parentage hereafter born in the municipal area there will be furnished free a complete "layette" or outfit of linen necessities, and two large sheets. Mothers with twins or triplets may claim two or three "layettes," as the case may be; but only two full sized sheets will be supplied in each maternal case, though it be quintuplets...
...Born. To Lee Gentle, 65, "champion father of Georgia," a daughter, in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Gentle was recently congratulated by Congress and President Coolidge on his record of 28 children...
...name of two brothers Van Sweringen is accented in countless columns dealing with rail mergers, gigantic, planned, accomplished. Newswriters refer to them as giants, geniuses, masterminds; tell and retell the story of their amazing career. O. P. Van Sweringen was born 47 years ago, his brother two years later, in Wooster, Ohio. Denied extensive education, they sold newspapers, saved, moved to Cleveland, worked as office boys, saved more. Borrowing, they purchased a wooded tract near Cleveland, pronounced it the future residence district. Borrowing more, they made their land accessible by rapid transit, bought more land. They still buy. Twelve square...