Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This salute historic was the first ever accorded by a great power to the new Nationalist President, Chiang Kaishek. Such a salute would have been fired long ago by a German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire...
...Bank of the Manhattan Co. and International Acceptance is particularly important in the field of international banking. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. has hitherto confined itself chiefly to New York City, where it has built up some 50 branches. International Acceptance, on the other hand, with its Warburg German connections, has specialized in international enterprises. The combination in effect puts the combined resources of the two banks into the international field...
Died. Princess Clara, 66, relict of German Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved...
...Just before Revenge opened in Manhattan Jaime Del Rio, divorced husband of Dolores, died in a German sanitorium after having been assured of her love. (TIME...
Baron Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, husband of Bertha Krupp,* spoke last week in Essen at the unveiling of a monument to the 13 employes of the Krupp Works who were killed by French occupation troops in a 1923 riot. Said he: "Every German should think daily and hourly of this miserable French sanguinary act. What the French did to the Germans cries for vengeance and revenge. How fervently we must hate has been taught us by the French. This hate should be holy to us. It should be handed down as a legacy from generation to generation until that...