Word: junkerism
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John M. Larsen, importer of the famous Junker all-metal airplanes, collected $170,000 following a fire at his hangars at Central Park, L. I. He now has won his second suit against the Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. and the Commercial Union Assurance Co. The underwriters sought to recover their money on the basis of a confession of arson and conspiracy by Larsen's mechanic. But the confession extracted by detectives employed by a personal enemy of Larsen's, under threats of the application of the Mann Act, failed to impress the jury. The case aroused...
...manslaughter. Religion and Education-Alex Henderkott, keeper of disorderly houses, 22 convictions. Health-Heinrich Groll, manservant, twelve convictions. Traffic-Johann Paffenholz, messenger, 23 convictions. Art-Ludwig Schulz, trumpeter, 13 convictions. Guardian of the Poor-Ferdinand Graf, painter and decorator, six convictions. Simon, workman, 15 convictions. Military Service-Robert Junker, baker, three convictions. Five officials without portfolio are named with 30 convictions among them...
Piloted by Edward Stinson, a pioneer aviator, with Charles Dickinson and Arthur Gray of the Aero Club of Illinois as passengers, a Junker metal monoplane made an all-night non-stop fight from Chicago to Mitchel Field, L. I. Flying steadily at 100 miles an hour, by moonlight to Cleveland, in total darkness thereafter, the plane completed the journey in eight and a half hours without the shadow of a mishap. This is a forerunner of the aerial sleeper. The 20th Century Limited serves the business man at present better than an airplane flying only by day, but to make...
According to German advices, his airplane, unknown to him, is a defective second-hand machine, and fears are felt for his safety. The Junker Airplane Company, is bringing two planes to Spitzbergen for rescue work, and unless the explorer is heard from within a reasonable time, they will circle the Arctic Zone in the direction of the Pole, scanning the vast ice pack for trace of the aviator, who, with his pilot, has supplies for but 24 hours...
Combining many of the features of the English parliamentary system of government with the American presidential system, the new German frame of government undertakes an innovation which commands the attention of all who live under a republican government. Fear of a coup d'etat by the junker element, coupled with machinations of the present capitalist regime have thus far prevented the new Constitution of Germany from getting under way. The Ruhr crisis may furnish the required stimulus and with a president chosen by the vote of the whole German people a more definite course of action, for better...