Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When only smoking embers remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
Chief reason for the flight of Vasil Radoslavoff was his connection with fox-bearded German Tsar Ferdinand. In 1923, Peasant-Prime Minister Stamboulisky was overthrown by a coup d'état and assassinated while trying to escape. Disgust with Stamboulisky brought renewed respect for Radoslavoff. People forgot that he had been prosecuted for corrupt practices before...
...Prime Minister Radoslavoff, always pro-German, who took Bulgaria into the War on the German side when most Bulgarians were in favor of neutrality. It was Prime Minister Radoslavoff, occasionally farsighted, who refused (he now says) to declare war on the U. S. against the earnest entreaties of temperamental General von Ludendorff...
...Vatican last week announced July 15 as the date for the next long-expected secret consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. The only elevation known in advance was that of Mgr. Idlefonso Schuster, abbot of the Basilica of St. Paul's, Rome, a German-Swiss who will be made Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, a position once held by Pius...
...founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan and Isidor Straus, sons of Lazarus Straus, and in 1902 Macy's moved to its present...