Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Deputies sought "door no. 2"* last week, returning from a recess taken early in November. For them a jolly, pinky-faced, white mustached statesman had prepared a heavy meal of legislative fare. He was Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler. While the deputies recessed, he had drafted the German Budget, to balance for 1928 at 9,500,000,000 marks...
...plan must reach 1,750,000,000 marks ($416,500,000) for the first time, the deputies were in no hurry, last week, to consider the figures which explain how Germany can pay so huge a sum. As the session began, only minor bills were considered, and the Franco-German Trade Treaty was rushed through its third and final reading...
...Berlin. From 1901 to 1906 the sensation at the Berlin Imperia, Opera was MISS GERALDINE FARRAR AUS NEW YORK. She began as Marguerite in Faust, doing the unheard of thing, singing in Italian in a Berlin house, holding a contract saying that she need not sing in German until she had had time to learn the language. She was 19, sparkling, as she is today. The Kaiser was interested; so was the Crown Prince. The Hofmarshall brought her an invitation to appear at the Palace one night. She must wear black or lavender and gloves, for the court...
...Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful mainly for advertising purposes. He considers that the new-type vessels being built considerably shorter than this by German shipyards will set the new standards for transatlantic ocean liners...
Other Plans. The North German Lloyd Line is building two liners at Bremen, intended to be the fastest ships afloat. The French Line contemplates a ship larger than its 43,500-ton Ile de France; and the Italian Line is seriously thinking of two of nearly like size...