Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kaiser Wilhelm II reigned, the World War broke out, cables between Germany and the U. S. were cut by the Allies. Last week President von Hindenburg, second President of the German people, exchanged greetings with President Coolidge, formally opening the newly laid Emden-Azores cable...
...moral problem which every community faces-whether or not to kill off in all kindness its incurably diseased members-was dramatized for Germany last week by the Reverend Walter Nithack-Stahn, pastor of the fashionable Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. Pastor Nithack-Stahn knows of the skeletons in his congregation's closets. He knows too that the incidence of mental diseases have been increasing tremendously in all civilized countries, that in Germany, especially, post-War maladjustments have permanently deranged the minds of thousands. An astute gentleman alert to the wide interest in the subject, he wrote a play...
Died. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 72, famed Germanophile, husband of Richard Wagner's daughter Eva; in Bayreuth. Son of the late British Rear Admiral W. C. Chamberlain, and nephew of the late Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, he was naturalized a German 1916, following decoration by the Kaiser for a book glorifying Germany...
...parents, bought the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1889. He had already established two Catholic newspapers in Manhattan and under his direction the Staats-Zeitung became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly understood. He died poor owing to a large and unfortunate investment. Friends assumed his debts to keep his press properties intact, as they have been kept...
...played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the onetime Kaiser fells a modest cord or two each year in Doorn, Mr. Bigelow is indefatigable as a log and kindling splitter at his 120-year-old rustic abode, "Bigelow Homestead," in Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. (TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through...