Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential table-chat was the story appearing in Collier's for Jan. 26. This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the govern-ment conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...
...Commercialization" is a mysterious word which correspondents have been bandying for years. It is used as a convenient abbreviation for the prolix idea that Germany's state debt to the Allies might be transformed into a private debt, by selling German bonds in the world market and using the cash realized to pay off the state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private...
...Allied and German representatives looked askance at me," said Mr. Young, "when I said I was going to suggest a boy 32 years old to handle that great piece of machinery, and it is certainly a great satisfaction that he has given such a striking demonstration of what an American youth can do. We don't have to wait until he is 50 or 60 to give him a place of power...
...know that this so-called German Grand Opera Company is again an enterprise of Mr. Blumental's. As soon as we heard about our name 'Bayreuth' being brought into connection with this, we wrote to Mr. Blumental strickly forbidding him to call his company anything like Bayreuth! He sent us a very old dirty looking visiting card with his name and the words 'German Opera Company' to reassure us that he was not misusing the word Bayreuth. This Prospectus again shows us that this Grand German Opera Company is working with our name...
Adverse criticism, financial difficulties beset the German Grand Opera Company after its first performance. After one week it was necessary to dethrone Manager Blumental, place the company under the care of Concert Manager Sol Hurok, who said in part...