Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mann of Buddenbrooks. In the early 18th Century the House of Mann was great in the woolen draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...
...Learned from newspapers of the Labor Government's most important act of the week: notification to the German Government by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden that he will not return to the Reich a surplus of $60,000,000 left over from the liquidation of German property seized in Britain during...
...banker. Unlike John Barrymore, who wanted to be an artist, she was early convinced that the theatre would be her life. Living in Paris from her third to fourteenth years, she attended the College Sévigné, developed a linguistic talent which now allows her. to talk French, German, Danish and Russian. In England she studied dramatics at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy, made her début in London (1915) as a cockney girl in The Laughter of Fools. She reached the U. S. by making friends with Actress Elsie Jam's, whom she accosted at a stage door...
...Joseph Rosenstock, new German conductor from Wiesbaden (TIME, Nov. 11) resigned. As the result of critics' railings, he admitted to nervous collapse, presented a doctor's certificate advising retirement. Artur Bodanzky, his predecessor, will return temporarily as guest conductor...
...another central bank. They had to secure some centrally located spot which could focus the European money markets, and one able to recommend itself by its banking facilities. Above all they must have been moved by the strenuous fight made by the Agent General for Reparations to remove from German soil all vestiges of financial "control" and to enable the German nation to regard the reparations burden as a voluntarily assumed task making for the reconstruction of Europe...