Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their seizure of a train load of foreigners, including many Americans, is the only act in a long brigandage which has received much publicity. These bandits have been preying on the provinces ever since the iron rule of the emperors was discarded for a comparatively feeble democratic government. They have recently been joined by the remnants of the army defeated by General Wu Pei-Fu. Bands of a hundred thousand strong and organized under a leader, Lao Yang-jen, became more daring as soon as the efficient Japanese withdrew from Shantung...
...York Globe published a series of articles describing Germany under the rule of a new mailed fist- that of the iron and coal kings...
Felix Deutsch, successor to Walter Rathenau (former German Foreign Minister, assassinated June 24, 1922) as head of the Deutscheallgemeine- elektrizischegesellschaft, the greatest European electrotechnical concern, controlling coal and iron, and of the largest railway equipment trust in Europe...
Peter Klockner, formerly a Lorraine magnate. He is still immensely rich and has large interests in many . iron foundries and machine factories...
...Rochling brothers, who were the heaviest losers in Lorraine, Luxembourg and the Saar, have still gigantic iron interests in Germany...