Word: freiheit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will be, if elected, the only U. S. President of German descent in the direct line...
With such thoughts in their heads, hundreds of Jews made their way to the Freiheit Platz to attend the first session of the congress. Throughout the city 6,000 police were posted. Around the Platz were more than 500 sabred police, holding back a growling, rumbling, angry crowd...
...most important appointment is that of Herr Hilferding to the Ministry of Finance. Hilferding is a Jew and the Socialist editor of Die Freiheit. In politics he has distinct leanings toward Bolshevisnu but believes in moderate means to attain his ends...