Word: gustav
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Council Sits. At the first session of this "1926 Council," Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann appeared, pink and portly, as the first representative of Germany, to sit at the Council table. Reaching into his breast pocket he pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled back behind a peaceful smoke wreath. As a matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily...
...Aristide Briand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, and Gustav Stresemann, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, had a conversation of several hours which was most cordial. In the course of this conversation they examined, one after another, all the problems which might interest the two countries ana they sought together the best means of assuring their solution in the interest of both France and Germany and the spirit of the treaties they then had signed...
...also had a son in the tradition, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, who purchased the "Germania" shipyard at Kiel, expanded the industry until it employed 40,000 workmen. At his death in 1902, he was succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during...
...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
...tall, slim, blond, virile, wise. He was Gustav V, King of Sweden. When he called incognito, silk-hatted, frock-coated, at the Wilhelmstrasse Palace, Berlin, an entire company of the Reichswehr goosestepped to welcome the first monarch ever to visit a President of the Reich. Pleased, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg graciously entertained King Gustav...