Word: doktor
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German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...
...deadlock among factions that all possibility of obtaining a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution in favor of a third term for President Hainisch quickly vanished. Preliminary balloting showed that the 91 Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting the election...
Thus everyone was obliged to seem "surprised" all over again at Jonkheer Doktor J. Loudon, stiff-necked Minister to France of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Chairman of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission...
First to sign was Herr Doktor Stresemann (Allemagne), next Visitor Kellogg (Amérique, Les États Unis d'), then Foreign Minister Paul Hymans (Belgique), and so on alphabetically. Baron Cushendun signed twice, once for Great Britain, once for India...
...outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...