Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero Burns was the youth who solved his native Ohio's tally-sheet forgeries in 1885 and entered the U. S. Secret Service with a brilliant reputation which soon became international. Hero Burns was the detective who caught Charles Ulrich, the German counterfeiter; Taylor & Bredill, the Monroe-head $100 bill makers; Abe Ruef, corrupt boss of San Francisco, and many another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore...
...opening lecture of the illustrated series on "German Architecture" to be given by Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, of the University of Berlin, visiting lecturer on Fine Arts and the History of German Culture, will take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Germanie Museum...
This lecture, one of a group of six to be delivered during the winter under the joint auspices of the Fogg and Germanic Museums, will be given in German and will be illustrated by lantern slides showing in detail the development of German architecture from the Dark Ages through mediaeval times...
November 16 "Romanesque Churches from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century": November 30 "Gothie Architecture in Germany, its Derivation from France and its Particular German Forms": December 7 "North German Brick Architecture and its Decoration": December 14 "The Hall-Church and its Transition to the Renaissance Building": December 21. "Architecture and Decoration of the Baroque Churches in Germany in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries...
Victim. Simon Petlura, in the opinion of many, was an adventurer. The son of a Russian cabman, he is said to have been active in plotting against the Tsar. In 1918 he entered Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, with the Austrian and German armies, under whose auspices he took the lead in trying to separate that province from the rest of Russia. He not only promoted himself a general but also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived...