Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When great men go into eclipse they usually become writers or schemers, or both. During the 21 years of his exile at Doom, The Netherlands, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, has written millions of words in articles, memoirs (unfinished) and private correspondence. And he has never given up hope for a Hohenzollern restoration in Germany. As late as January 1930 he was quoted as saying: "The people will call back their Kaiser." Although Wilhelm II has had to be careful to obey the no-politics order...
...Hudson, N. Y., who used to romp with him in a German school when Poultney's father was U. S. Minister to France. No war could break their friendship, which has extended to their families (see cut), and every year Oldster Bigelow goes to visit Oldster Hohenzollern at Doom. Last week, after having trouble getting a passport ("I told President Roosevelt I would ha'nt him"), Poultney Bigelow sailed from Manhattan. Before sailing he gave the press some quotes from a letter of the former Kaiser, explaining discreetly that he was not authorized...
...Kensuke Horinouchi, hunched Mr. Berle was a figure of doom last week. Expiring in only 72 hours was the U. S. Japanese Commerce & Navigation Treaty of 1911. the keystone of a trade vital to Japan and valuable to the U. S. At and after the stroke of midnight. Jan. 26, the U. S. could hike tariff duties on imports from Japan, put many an obstacle in the way of exports to Japan. Ambassador Horinouchi therefore came to ask: What...
Wilhelm von HohenzoIIern, 21 years ago a beaten warlord and exiled Kaiser, today a grumpy old man on a cane, passed his 81st birthday last week quietly at Doom in The Netherlands. Nazi Germany took no official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take...
...Lincoln In Illinois (RKO) falters through the Great Emancipator's frontier youth, does not hit its solemn stride until long-legged, melancholy Lawyer Lincoln stalks in to meet tightlipped, go-getting Mary Todd. From then on, it is dedicated to the proposition that its doom-ridden hero was nagged into greatness by an ambitious wife...