Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great financiers assembled in Paris as the Second Dawes Committee spent last week in elaborating privately their plan of creating a stupendous Bank of International Settlement (TIME, March 11) to deal simultaneously and on a business basis with every phase of the German...
Reparations problem. As the work progressed no public utterance was made by any member of the U.S., French, German or Japanese delegations, but the British and Italian chief delegates expressed themselves briefly. Sir Josiah Stamp: "There are three sides to our problem-political, financial and economic. And as soon as we-or any one else-have finished with one aspect, another bobs up. "It is impossible for any one to take account of all three at the same time and it is not in the province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying...
...Apropos seemed an editorial of last week in the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung of Düsseldorf, a paper generally considered the mouthpiece of one of the German delegates at Paris, Dr. Albert Voegler, Member of the Board of the Ruhr Steel Cartel...
...American Birth Control League. No such book has ever before been printed in the U. S., nor made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, has published two monumental books on the subject, but it is almost impossible to find copies of them...
...names made the following news: John D. Rockefeller Jr., sojourning last week in Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...