Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bremen, the other sister, received her champagne baptism at Bremen. It is no discourtesy to distinguished Ambassador Schurman to say that the Bremen's launching oration was pronounced by a mightier Man. A roar of welcome went up from 50,000 throats as He arrived, striding with ponderous tread, nodding gravely at the plaudits, a man too old and too great to receive aught but universal homage...
...Seventy years ago [when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. ... I christen thee Bremen...
...hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work...
...Koehl and Maj. James G. Fitzmaurice arrived in Manhattan after their east-west trans-Atlantic flight (TIME, May 7) they received a noisy, elaborate burst of greeting. Touched by this fanfare, impartially accorded by the U.S. to a two-thirds Germanic achievement, they donated the propeller of their monoplane Bremen to the projected Museum of the City of New York...
Gallant, grateful von Huenefeld, speaking for himself and his companions last week, gave the Bremen entire, to the Museum. "The hand stretched out to us in Dure enthusiasm, and in warm, hearty feeling convinced us that the rift in friendship between the two nations . . . must never again occur. A bridge must be constructed capable of withstanding all storms...