Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informal group suggests that the payment of German reparations be administered by a corporate trusteeship on a strictly business basis...
Berkeley declared that, despite German denials, bombs containing the bacilli of bubonic plague were unquestionably dropped upon troops of the British Fifth Army in 1916. Asked what was done about the bacilli, Sir Berkeley said reminiscently, "We encouraged cats and owls." (Cats and owls catch rats, which carry fleas, which carry bubonic bacilli...
...dissuaded from appearing at the most glittering State banquets in homely carpet slippers with a knitted shawl over her old-fashioned ''party dress." Withal, however, Mrs. Smuts seems to get on very placidly with her doughty General, who, during the War, captured most of German South Africa for the Empire...
...Jacob; but Joseph, the president, is more potent than his brethren. Last week he bustled busily over the Exchange. He is a small, thin man (hardly five feet tall) with a brown suit which he has worn so consistently that it is indelibly associated with him. Of German descent, he is an Orthodox Jew, and rarely visits the Exchange on Saturdays except when there is a very threatening bear market. The main plant is in Philadelphia; the New York office, at No. 16 Exchange Place, is small as to staff and scarce as to furniture. On the walls hang many...
Died. Dr. Wilhelm von Bode, 83, of Berlin, famed German art expert, longtime director general of the royal museums (1905-20), founder and onetime director of Berlin's great Kaiser Friedrich Museum; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Punditical Dr. von Bode guarded and increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found...