Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War, Germany has not always been fortunate in the choice of her diplomatic representatives to the U. S. The first post-war Ambassador was Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, who incurred some sharp criticism when he refused to lower the German flag to half mast on the occasion of ex-President Woodrow Wilson's death. The second was Baron von Maltzan, who, although starting his diplomatic mission under the cloud of his predecessor, finally had achieved conspicuous success and popularity at the time of his death?an event which occasioned nationwide sympathy and sorrow...
...this seemed wonderful and not a little of chemical prestidigitation. However, monsol, a coal tar derivative, is not different in source and relatively no different in effect from several other aniline dyes tied chemically to antiseptics. The German doctor Paul Ehrlich imagined their theory in the 1880's, applied chemical knowledge and after 20 years invented salvarsan, specific against lues.* This is a yellowish powder composed of arsenic and hydrocarbons. It is a selective poison for spirochetes. By creating it, Dr. Ehrlich founded a new science...
...bankers simply middlemen or brokers whose only thought is the commission they want. . . ?" He instanced this financiering as an example of how U. S. foreign loans strengthen the arms of those he contends are ready to strike the U. S.: "It is reported throughout the European press that the German cartel, the I. G. (Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie), has, through exchange of stock, merged with the Norwegian Hydro-Electric Co. and that the latter is contemplating a great expansion of its operations for fixation of nitrogen through a loan of $20,000,000 which it expects to get through...
...Story: Harry Rebhan bought (January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, etc. He sold them to all Liggett Drug Stores...
...Story: Said a despatch from Berlin last week: "The Steglitz District of the German capital is to have an enormous new public school constructed practically entirely of glass...