Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her short history, her few landmarks, Berlin gave Herr Hitler ample room and freedom to develop his project. As a working model, he followed in broad, but greatly augmented outline, plans drawn up for and approved by Kaiser Wilhelm II shortly before the World...
With Greater Germany shouting "Heil!", Celebrator Hitler's followers strove hard to depict as a great soldier the former corporal of Kaiser Wilhelm II's army. In radio broadcasts throughout Germany, Führer Hitler was being pictured as a military as well as a political genius. It fell to no army officer but to Dr. Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief, to reveal that Genius Hitler's technical knowledge of things military "astonishes even the experts." So exultant was the Hitler birthday celebration throughout the Reich that Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior, was moved...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...
...sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
...12th Century, came into possession of part of Liechtenstein in 1699, the remainder in 1712. It was constituted a principality in 1719 by diploma from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg often turned to the House of Liechtenstein for their brides. Austrian Kaiser Franz Josef once named Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Paul, who abdicated last week, as Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Imperial Russian court. The art collection of hoary Prince Franz Paul is one of Europe's finest...