Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedy Ford sedan was the clue that led to the arrest of 40 people in North Germany last week, reawakening German interest in the notorious Organization Konsul, bloodthirsty Nationalist secret society which was responsible for the assassinations of onetime Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger in 1921 and Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau...
...many weeks past small bombs have been bursting under assorted public buildings in Schleswig-Holstein and North Prussia. Three weeks ago another bomb, the eleventh in the series, burst noisily in the cellar of the German Reichstag at 4 a. m.. breaking many windows. Spurred by offers of a $15,000 reward, German police concentrated on the bombings...
...German editors last week reminded their readers that agents of Der Konsul were once not only accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
...Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends. The residue goes "for educational research work in chemistry...
...built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed: two Johnson hens, by fright. Injured: Mrs. Johnson's wash, by oil leaking from the treed ship...