Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany. Water filtering down into the earth from the flooded Rhine Valley slightly weakened the geological substratum of the Rhineland, and caused severe earth tremors, which terrified the already wretched flood refugees. Disastrous landslides took place in the Hartz Mountains. Reserve icebreakers were despatched from Hamburg and Bremen to keep open the badly frozen up shipping routes in the northern Baltic...
...responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption, 85,000,000 lb.; in annual sugar consumption...
...official Agricultural Commission, the first to travel abroad since the War, left Bremen for the U. S. to study the progress made in U. S. agriculture during the past ten years. Members of the Commission: Prof. Theodor Brinkmann of Bonn University, Prof. George Keuhne of Munich University, Prof. Theodor Roemer of Halle University, Herr Joachim Deiche, large farmowner...
Having learned to wield the saddle-maker's awl and, in his spare time, the pen, he forsook his trade, went to Bremen and became a journeyman. In Bremen, as is most of Germany's seaports, Socialism was finding hospitable entertainment in the hearts and minds of the common people. Young Ebert soon became identified with the Socialists and was to be seen most Sundays haranguing crowds on the merits of Marxian philosophy* but for all his energy he passed for a man of mediocre ability...
...saddler's apprentice is well-known. That he stopped directly from this occupation to the presidency is, of course, false. Since 1901 he had been a recognized factor in German politics. Ebert had always been a Socialist, preaching the creed of Marx and Lassalle in the streets of Bremen...