Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even the German delegation was declared to have tacitly endorsed this principle, last week, as a result of repeated personal conferences between Manhattan's sociable yet determined Owen D. Young and Berlin's somewhat brusque and offish Dr. Hjalmar Schacht-he who only last fortnight embroiled the committee by suggesting that its august proceedings amounted to "shady horse-trading...
...Sundays as well as week days in an effort to fix as soon as possible how much more than minimum the Fatherland must pay. This surplus above the Allied needs for repayment to the U. S. is supposed to partially cover the cost of repairing War damage done by German forces by land, sea, and air. Reputedly, the Young Memorandum contains a tentative statement of what might be considered the just "reconstruction claims" of each of the Allied Powers. If cables spoke true, last week, acceptance of these recommendations by the chairman would mean cutting almost in half what Great...
...every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...
Childishly simple in conception, couched in free verse, the libretto wallows in German sentimental-realism. Fog, snow, the hum of the motor, the ships at sea are all personified. The hero sings...
...follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...