Word: germane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashionable Berlin cinemaddict, The Homecoming held no particular significance. First-nighters watched the story of two German soldiers imprisoned in Russia during the War, returning to the Vaterland to find vast and disturbing changes. What the average cinemaddict failed to mark was a brief announcement at the picture's opening...
...slightly sinister figure of Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, owner of UFA and the most powerful publisher in Germany. Among his agencies are the Telegraphen Union Internationale, greatest independent agency in Europe and the Berlin newspapers Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, Der Tag and Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (official organ of the German Foreign Office...
...avowed monarchist, nationalist, militarist, his influence is feared by many a German Republican. When he bought UFA's 130 theatres, in 1927, Republicans openly charged he would change UFA into an organ of nationalist propaganda. In 1926, his newspapers groomed him for the dictatorship of Germany, a move which came to an end abruptly with a police search of his offices...
Died. Rear Admiral Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, 64, who for two months during the World War defended the German colony of Kaio-chow against the Japanese ("I shall never surrender while I live unless ordered to"); in Bad Kissingen, Germany...
With the name Feuchtwanger literary persons associate power. Reason: Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer, wrote a tome known in the U.S. as Power; abroad, as Jud Süss. Austin J. Feuchtwanger (stocks & bonds, onetime flyer) likes power. At Stamford, Conn., last week his fondness for it was demonstrated when the Sally-Too, 32-foot speedboat, was demonstrated, did 61 miles an hour...