Word: doktor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German contention was ably expressed by Herr Doktor Paul Loebe, President of the German Reichstag. It was: If Locarno is worth anything, withdraw the occupation troops from the Rhine...
...Briand, successfully avoiding the Council meeting (see below), eventually did arrive, confounding the wiseacres. And upon his arrival at the Hotel les Bergues, the lively little Frenchman was soon holding animated conversation with the stolid, sleek German Foreign Minister, Herr Doktor Gustav Stresemann...
President von Hindenburg sought to end the Cabinet crisis (TIME, Dec. 27) by calling upon Minister of Economics, Herr Doktor Julius Curtius to form a Cabinet. Herr Doktor Curtius, who could pass in most assemblages for a smooth-shaven U. S. businessman, dickered earnestly all week with his political peers but was unable to get sufficient support to keep even a "Little Coalition Cabinet" afloat. Subsequently the President called upon Herr Wilhelm Marx, whose Cabinet has resigned but functions ad interim, to try to form a Government...
...Schund und Schmutz." Herr Doktor Wilhelm Kuelz, Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed...
...where mature thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find in a decline. He has equipped himself to serve the Western World as one of its philosophers by visiting practically all the world. The publication of his Travel Diary of a Philosopher last year gained him his first wide hearing outside of Germany, being...