Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the green-coated police of Berlin detected and waylaid a package addressed to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, Holland. The package was about the proper bulk and proportions to contain a cartwheel. Was Wilhelm building a rustic cart? Had he found the wheels too much...
...cargo of "Swiss mountaineers, young ladies in riding habits, and young; ladies without riding habits or much of anything else," all of which had been touched by the lips of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm, arrived last week in the U. S. They were human figures carved exquisitely upon 70 pipes once belonging to the former Emperor, and recently acquired by Henry W. Faulhaber of Pittsburgh. They were valued...
Then one day at Sarajevo a bomb blew Francis Ferdinand to bits, and von Hoetzendorf went forth to war. He promptly lost Galicia to the Russians and his prestige waned. But he planned the campaign which resulted in its recapture, and was given the Order of Merit by the Kaiser when Lemberg fell to his advance...
...magnates in the Ruhr) had sold their Moroccan properties. The Mannesmanns, Reinhard and Max, now men in their late 60's, eminent industrial metallurgists, many years ago bought up many valuable properties from Moroccan sheiks. These properties were involved in the famous Agadir incident which brought the erstwhile Kaiser down to Morocco with diplomatic complications several decades ago. During the war the Mannesmann properties in French Morocco were confiscated. Now they have sold their property in the Spanish zone...
Undoubtedly the continual growth of the Monarchist idea in Germany is responsible for last week's demonstration, to which may be added the recent visit of the ex-King to the ex-Kaiser at Doom. But if his loyal followers expected an imperial message from the exile at Doom, they were disappointed; Friedrich Augustus, as also might have been expected, said nothing. Nevertheless, when he reviewed his "troops" (Monarchists in uniform) he did something which no ex-monarch in Germany has done since...