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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hull Hooks. Outstanding among safety devices suggested for future use on U. S. submarines were hooks or rings, welded into the hull, to which lifting chains could be fastened. German submarines have such accessories. U.S. submarines used to have them but, according to the Navy Department, they were abandoned when U. S. submarines were built too big to be lifted...
...German Republic. The Centre-Right Cabinet of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx is founded upon a perhaps not unshakable rock ballast of coalition support, but the German Republic has long gone forward, irrespective of cabinet changes, under four perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than...
...Germans it is a bitter, galling fact that Posen, the birthplace of President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness...
...REINHARDT'S SEASON?Spectacular importations from Berlin and Vienna given in German...
...Reinhardt, German, continued to reveal his repertory at the massive Century Theatre. Again he showed himself the magic master of mass formations on the stage. The crowded fury of tattered Paris in the Revolution came clamoring to life as Danton was tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal which he had founded and as he rode to the guillotine. The rest of the play was sluggish. In German, language of the presentation, Tod means Death...