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President von Hindenburg, attired as a feldmarschall, spent the week at, that picturesque Württemberg spa, Bad Mergentheim, sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim Games | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Well pleased at the maneuvres, President von Hindenburg said: "I have seen today that the German army's traditional standard of spirit and skill has been preserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim Games | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...command from President von Hindenburg cause German modistes to clap wigs on mannequins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

President von Hindenburg of Germany: "Berlin coiffeurs are attempting to launch the 'Hindenburg bob,' an exaggerated 'shingle,' imitative of my short bristling pompadour. I made known unofficially last week my disapproval of this new 'bob.' Docile German modistes at once clapped wigs upon such of their mannequins as had adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Hindenburg snorted. Mussolini bellowed. They charged, wallowed together in a choking cloud of dust. Baldwin, Coolidge and Poincare chewed their cuds, mooed stolidly as Hindenburg and Mussolini were led back to the stalls from which they had escaped to battle. Tourists, visiting last week the late summer cattle fair at Frauenfeld, Switzerland, noted as "quaint" the immemorial custom by which local farmers name annually their prize cattle after world famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Medicine | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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