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...Field Marshal had remained indurately opposed to accepting nomination until a loud knock sounded on the door of No. 15 Wedekindstrasse, Hanover, and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz appeared to undermine Hindenburg's resistance. It was subsequently given out on the slenderest authority that the ex-Kaiser at Doorn had intervened to command the old man to stand for election ; and that the latter, faithful and true to the former Emperor and King, had immediately made Tirpitz's heart glad by accepting the nomination...
...enterprising and Germanophile New York American immediately put the matter to the test by cabling the ex-Kaiser and asking him if there was any truth in the report that he had requested Hindenburg to accept nomination. The following reply was received...
...hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...
...Stresemann. Dr. Stresemann began to make out his ballot on a table, was told by a clerk that he must do it in a booth. With a sigh and a terrific squeeze; the portly Doktor entered a small booth. At Potsdam, Prince Friedrich, second son of the ex-Kaiser, and a number of former courtiers apathetically recorded their votes. From Munich, in the south, came the that General Ludendorff had refused to vote for himself or anybody else. He likewise declined to make any comment...
...author has been over-reticent in dealing with many of the episodes of "Bertie's" early life; he has been over-fearful of ruffling the supposed Germanophobe predilections of the reading public, as is witnessed by his fortuitous depreciation of the ex-Kaiser and his forced attempts to defend the Prince ; he has failed to bring out the Prince's personality and has depicted him more as a slave of convention than an independent and vital character...