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German leaders tried hard to find a successor last week. At Schorfheide, his Bavarian shooting lodge, grizzled old President von Hindenburg quietly celebrated his 82nd birthday. An aide brought news of Stresemann's death. President von Hindenburg rushed back to Berlin. Preceding him was a telegram...
Died. Fraulein Ida von Hindenburg, 77, of Berlin, only sister of President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg; at Potsdam...
With the news that the whale-nosed Bremen had lowered the Atlantispeed record by nearly nine hours, the City of Bremen went wild last week. Germany's President, rheumy Paul von Hindenburg. sent congratulatory telegrams. City fathers, clubs and corporations lunched and dined, rapturously drank each other's health. In New York, correspondents of German newspapers rushed pages and pages to the cable offices, announcing that the entire city had Ein furchtbares Bremenfieber, a furious Bremen-fever. With precision they noted these points...
...Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles!" sang the Bremerhaven throngs as the Bremen steamed away, and many a patriot recalled the grave yet stirring words of President Paul von Hindenburg when he launched the great ship last year. "It is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. I hail the Bremen ... as a manifestation of the indestructible German capacity for work...
...pompous demonstration in the Berlin Stadium with much goose-stepping and waving of old Imperial flags. More spontaneous, more impressive was a student riot on Unter den Linden where 1,000 students sang Deutschland Uber Alles, shouted "Down with the Schweinische Republik," and attempted to serenade President von Hindenburg. The police, mindful of Bloody May Day (TIME, May 13), were careful not to shoot but wielded their heavy rubber clubs vigorously...