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...direct cause of the U.S. entry on the side of the allies. Yet for 20 years the commanding gentleman with the white forked beard was a German figure second in popular familiarity only to that of the Kaiser himself. (Almost unknown until 1916 was grave, grizzled Paul von Hindenburg, general of division...
...blow. Salz-detfurth Potash lost 13 points, and the gigantic firm of Siemens & Halske (comparable in Germany to U. S. General Electric) was knocked for a loss of twelve. If the Director of the Reichsbank did not sell short before he handed his resignation to President Paul von Hindenburg, he resisted titanic temptation, proved himself indeed an "Iron...
...grew livid, but he controlled himself, answered evenly: "Aside from the damnable insinuation that a man like Mr. Young might use information, if given, for purposes of speculation, the report is absolutely false. I desire to assert emphatically that not even the German Government, but only President von Hindenburg, knew of my intention to resign...
...with another ex-U. S. soldier in a café, and hears a strange yarn about a signalling detachment of 40 women who managed to get up to the front. Their commander, Lieutenant Alberta Snyder, had drilled them into a fine body of women. During the drive against the Hindenburg Line they did yeoman service at the field telephones; an infuriated but harassed commanding officer allowed them to stay. Some of them were killed; their lieutenant was captured by the Germans...
...good actor, but one can't go on acting forever. His gestures lead everybody to talk about him, and for this reason the world believes that he is a great man. There are several great men in the world today. Masaryk has done great things for Czechslovakia Hindenburg has proved himself not only a great soldier, but a perfect statesman. Hoover was responsible for the relief of Belgium during the great war, and Edison is still alive, accomplishing great things. They do not possess the same histrionic gifts as Mussolini. This is why we do not hear much about them...