Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...franc and mark are not disturbed on international exchange. The disadvantage is that, in practice, prodigious complexities arise, out of which not a few crooks have profited. Exactly a year ago another set of international sharpers cheated the Great Powers concerned out of $12,000,000 worth of German hops, coal, seed (TIME...
Reduced to simplest terms such payments take place in three steps: 1) A German sugar-seller contracts with a French buyer for so many thousand pounds at the current price and the sugar is shipped; 2) The seller collects his money in marks from the German Treasury, and the Reparations Commission then credits Germany with the amount of the payment, just as though it had been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France...
...needs no Fritz for identification, no Mister for his dignity. Neither does Paderewski need his Ignaze Jan, nor Gieseking now his Walter. But ten years ago Kreisler was a celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly of France and Spain. Then Gieseking played Bach, Schumann, Schubert...
President Nicholas Murray ("Miracu lous") Butler, of Columbia University, whose "who" in Who's Who runs an entire column, last week stepped into a five-story house on West 117th Street, Manhattan, with young and elegant Baron von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the U. S. With the Baron was the Baroness...
Following them was a group of distinguished professors and Manhattanites. Greetings were exchanged, a few speeches were delivered, everybody admired the ultra-modern German interior decorations. Thus was re opened Columbia's Deutsches Haus, founded in 1910 by Engineer & Financier Edward Dean Adams...