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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Adalbert Michael Hubert von Hohenzollern, 21-year-old grandson of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, and second son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, last week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Obviously such promises are electioneering tosh, but in 1918 Prime Minister Lloyd George won an election by promising to "hang the Kaiser," and today he knows that what the 1,400,000 British unemployed want to have promised them is jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Wilhelm von Bode, 83, of Berlin, famed German art expert, longtime director general of the royal museums (1905-20), founder and onetime director of Berlin's great Kaiser Friedrich Museum; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Punditical Dr. von Bode guarded and increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Atlantic and all of whose prospective roads (particularly the Western Maryland) are included in the B. & O. plan. The Pennsylvania, affluent, central, well satisfied with existing conditions, has no more reason to applaud new consolidations than Great Britain had reason to applaud Napoleon's armies or the Kaiser's navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Balance of Powers | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...word explanatory article for the New York Times. That article brought him several thousand dollars. The money was useful, for the Einsteins are, like most scientific families, comparatively poor. Not much income ensues from his professorship at the Academy of Sciences or from his directorship at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Yet the Einsteins, if they were really in need, might look with confidence to their very rich relatives, the Kochs and Dreyfuses of Germany and France. They are related to that Robert Koch (1843-1910) who discovered tuberculin and, after Louis Pasteur (1822-95), founded modern medicine. Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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