Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points in this transaction the element of fair price and value is vital. German swindlers were proved, last week, to have shipped hops, coal, and seed in short measure to French swindlers who crooked their books to represent these shipments as full measure. From the ultimate sale of such goods the French Government thus realized only a short change value- a value whose spuriousness passed for long unnoticed, due to the immense complexity of reparations accounting...
Although investigations had barely begun, last week, the German Government pledged its every endeavor to stamp out a species of corruption which means that Germany has been credited with transferring $12,000,000 to France which was not received, but instead was divided between overpaid German swindlers and their French accomplices...
Troublous years since 1920 have shaken down eleven German cabinets; but these seven years have buffeted in vain Dr. Otto Gessler, continuously Minister of National Defense...
Because correspondents assume that no statesman ever resigns "because of ill health" they sought but failed to find a political motive. Time was when the Allied nations fairly howled for Gessler's official head, imputing to him the organization of secret German defense units: "The Black Reichswehr." This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him. Tomorrow would have brought him only a few more tilts and joustings with statesmen and politicians whom he has often worsted...
...circled, idled, wandered back and forth, wasting time, waiting. A tiny hole drained tiny drops from their gas tank. They came back to earth again 51 hours, 52 minutes, 24 seconds later, defeated by this tiny hole. They failed by half an hour and seven seconds to supplant the German world's record (TIME, Aug. 15) for endurance flying...