Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Houghton was scheduled to make another speech in German-populated Milwaukee...
Charles Evans Hughes began a sustained Republican effort in Missouri. There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house...
...Houghton proceeded to German-populated St. Louis and there painted a most moving picture of the Hoover services in feeding post-War Germany. The picture included "little girls . . . white, emaciated, unsmiling . . . with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of 1922 . . . the tears streaming down her face, carrying in her hand a little piece of hemlock." At the outset it appeared that Mr. Houghton had been sent to St. Louis to counteract a political canard that Mr. Hoover had been unkind to Germans. But at the end he said, "This...
Wednesday always offers a rich and varied list of special lectures, and today three series are being continued during the afternoon and evening. At 4.30 in the Fogg Museum Professor Paull continues his German lectures on Modern Painting in Germany with "Romantic Illustration and Painting". Professor Hazard will discuss "Symbolism in Modern French Poetry" in French at 5 in Emerson D, while tonight at 7.45 the third of the Wertheim lectures will be given in Emerson Hall on the subject, "The Development of Industrial Relations Through Mutual Consent...
...trust with the co-operation and advice of British bankers. Among its directors is Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist; Artemus L. Gates, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison and vice president of the New York Trust Co. Banker Gates, as a husky War aviator fell within German lines, intrepidly turned his machine gun on his captors, was imprisoned, escaped, was recaptured...