Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation will sail from New York on the S. S. Hamburg of the Hamburg-American Line on June 25 and will land at Southampton. The Members will return, sailing from Cherbourg on September 3. Each small group will make an extended visit in one country and will travel the rest of the time, including a week spent at the International Students Center at Geneva and a week at the Cite Universitaire at Paris...
...Frau Gertrude Frehse, potent textile industrialist, member of the House of Burgesses of the State and Free City of Hamburg. She said in a burring, rather pleasant voice: "I entered an apron factory, which I have now owned for 18 years, as an ordinary worker. Why should I tell you how long ago that was? . . . Today my husband has his business, too, but we keep all that separate from one another. I expect my two daughters to join me in my business when their education is complete; and my only son intends to enter his father's business. . . . [Smiling...
...Very few German girls stay at home now. The younger men accept this as a necessary condition partly due to the War; but of course some of the older men object to seeing women in offices and public positions. . . . My own interests are divided between industrial problems and the Hamburg Burgerschaft (House of Burgesses). Most of its other women members are teachers. . . . Oh, we are not so different from Americans. There are few Germans like my husband and myself, but we are happy...
German pre-War commercial greatness was notoriously due, in part, to the fact that German businessmen were quickest to present the ultimate consumer with exactly what he wanted to buy under exactly the name and guise to which he was accustomed. Therefore, as the newest Hamburg-American Liner steamed toward New York harbor on her maiden voyage last week, the name painted at her keen bow and across her neat stern was, of course, New York...
Most potent though not soonest to walk the plank would be famed Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor (Prime Minister) of the German Republic during 1922-23, and present Chairman of the rapidly expanding and resurgent Hamburg-Amerikas-Linie which has obsorbed the Kosmos, Stinnes and German-Australian lines thus bringing its tonnage up to 850,000, as against...