Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WITTE Director German National Railway Co. Elberfeld, Germany...
...preponderantly and increasingly Socialist and Pacifist are the Germans of today that, last week, Socialist Prime Minister Herman Müller announced, for the first time, suspension of the annual army maneuvers scheduled to take place next fall. Simultaneously a letter sped from Wilhelm II to the Kaiser Wilhelm Association at Berlin, stating that the onetime All Highest War Lord still envisions "a day when the problem may arise of liberating the German Fatherland by reestablishing it under its Kaiser and hereditary Prince...
...receiving abject homage. Nephew Albert toured the Congo in 1909 as Crown Prince. This, the present state visit of King Albert, is a reap-parition royale after 19 years. Significant was the cordial approval of Queen Elizabeth which was manifested, last week, by inhabitants of Ruanda, Africa, a onetime German colony now held by Belgium under a League of Nations mandate. Ruandans approve the present Queen of the Belgians because they know her to be 100% German, know that her father was Duke Charles of Bavaria (Germany), know that she married King Albert in Munich, Germany. For her sake generous...
...tribes, two being notorious backsliders. A sprinkling of Pigmies had been drummed up and Their Majesties inspected with interest the cleanest, tamest, least savage. On their way home to Belgium, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth will pass a bleak spot in the English channel where, in September 1917, a German submarine torpedoed the Belgian steamer Elizabethville in the safe of which was locked the entire diamond output of the Congo for 1917, valued at $10,000,000. The Government of His Belgian Majesty has just employed an Italian deep sea diving firm which proposes to raise the safe by means...
...Research indicates that sauerkraut, despite its Teutonic name, originated not in Germany but in Asia. Tartars ate it first, introduced it to the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe, who fed it to their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St. Louis. Some physicians recommend sauerkraut for constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite...