Word: bremerhaven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...
Proud scores, proud hundreds of Bremen burghers trotted down with all their kinfolk to the mammoth docks at Bremerhaven last week to cheer themselves purple in the face. "Hoch der Bremen!" roared stout sires. Dimpling Frauleins echoed, "Hoch der Bremen!" Radio carried the massed cheering to remotest German hamlets. From stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past...
...Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles!" sang the Bremerhaven throngs as the Bremen steamed away, and many a patriot recalled the grave yet stirring words of President Paul von Hindenburg when he launched the great ship last year. "It is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. I hail the Bremen ... as a manifestation of the indestructible German capacity for work...
...liner America arrived at Bremerhaven loaded with gifts for German children. At the distribution messages were read to them from President Coolidge and U. S. Secretary of State Hughes...
...Lloyd's new liner, München, of 13,325 gross tons displacement, made a trial run from Swinemünde, where she was built, to Bremerhaven. As the München passed the scene of the battle of Skagerrak her flags were flown at half mast, "while officials, guests and crew took part in a memorial service to the German sailors who lost their lives in the battle...