Word: doktor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth he drudged 12 hours a day, at a salary of 4 shillings a week ($1.00). Last week he welcomed to the sumptuous mayoral board a company of diners plenipotent and distinguished. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, and the German Ambassador to Britain, Herr Doktor Sthamer, sat next each other and exchanged friendly pledges in a great loving cup. Premier Baldwin, Admiral Lord Beatty, a host of foreign Ambassadors, and many notable Britons from every walk of life, completed the gathering. As usual the banqueters were regaled with speeches of considerable political significance. Since the Foreign Secretary spoke publicly...
...months ago the proprietor of a small Italian resort glowed at the following tribute from the daughter of Frederick Ebert, late saddle-maker-President of Germany, and her husband, Doktor Wilhelm Jaenicke, son of the Kaiser's one-time bootmaker and now an attaché of the German Foreign Office. "Your hotel is so pleasant that we have temporarily forgotten that Hindenburg is President in Germany...
Some few days later a German Nationalist passed by. To him the "tribute" seemed seditious. Snipping it out of the register he forwarded it to the German Foreign Office, and Herr Doktor Jaenicke has been in hot water ever since. He was arrested and confessed his "crime" (TIME, June 8), but the court proceedings dragged on until last week, when his "sentence" became known. The presiding judge reprimanded him severely, and fined him 100 marks ($25), one-third of his monthly salary at the Foreign Office...
...Herr Doktor Jaenicke, who married Fraulein Ebert and became the son-in- law of the late President Friedrich Ebert, was last week arrested, charged with making disrespectful remarks about President Hindenburg in a hotel guest book. In Court he admitted his offense, was suspended from service as an attache in the Foreign Office as a disciplinary measure...
...Simons, to vote for a successor to himself. Next came Foreign Minister and Frau tav Stresemann. Dr. Stresemann began to make out his ballot on a table, was told by a clerk that he must do it in a booth. With a sigh and a terrific squeeze; the portly Doktor entered a small booth. At Potsdam, Prince Friedrich, second son of the ex-Kaiser, and a number of former courtiers apathetically recorded their votes. From Munich, in the south, came the that General Ludendorff had refused to vote for himself or anybody else. He likewise declined to make any comment...