Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the German Federal Council made a full and specific explanation to German farmers over the radio, warning them against U. S. barley. The hogs developed the colic, it was explained, because the grain was tainted with a poisonous fungus, known to scientists as gibberella sanbinetti and to the U. S. farmers as "wheat scab...
...second largest political party in the land, Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei introduced a still more rabid Monarchist, Col. von Struense, who proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...
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...Oshkosh, Wis., Theodore Borutski, onetime German soldier, owner of an iron cross, stated that he wished to change his last name to Roosevelt. Not in honor of famed Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Borutski wished his name to be Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the son of famed Theodore Roosevelt, aviator who was killed by Germans in France. To France, Theodore Borutski wished to send his iron cross that it might be laid together with a wreath upon the grave of Quentin Roosevelt...
Foreign Loans. Various German organizations are negotiating to borrow $100,000,000 in the U. S.; Greece wants $75,000,000; Hungary $5,000,000 (for its Reformed and Lutheran churches). President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank (Manhattan), last week told German bankers that $150,000,000 of foreign bonds offered in New York have remained unsold. That condition will doubtless force new foreign borrowers to offer high rates of interest (7% or more) for new loans...