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...excited Fitchburg was tractable. Mrs. Jessica Henderson of Boston had appeared to represent the Citizens Committee Against Vaccination. Go to jail, she cried, rather than be vaccinated. Pay the $5 State fine and keep your blood uncontaminated. Rev. Max A. Kapp of the Universalist Church invited her to use his platform for rostrum. Mayor Carriere and Dr. Burns talked to the proper members of the congregation, and Mr. Kapp withdrew his invitation. Dr. Marion H. Wilder, osteopath, could not be influenced. Mrs. Henderson spoke at his house, remembered that the day was Daniel Webster's 150th birth anniversary, quoted...
...London of Germany's new Iron Chancellor, pale, nasal Heinrich Brüning, did him no good with German extremists. While the London conference was still in progress, Nationalists streamed into a Berlin hall to hear inflammatory speeches by Deputy Paul Bang (Finance Minister in the brief sinister Kapp "Putsch" government) and Alfred Hugenberg's disciple, Fritz Kleiner. Boomed Bang...
...Vossische Zeituag announced that General Wilhelm Heye of the Reichswehr (standing army) would resign his office after the election. Named as his possible successor was General Kurt von Hammerstein, who was seized as a Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...
Flush and fiery Arthur Mahraun, 39, a Prussian infantry captain in the War, formed an organization in 1919 known as the Young German Order. Its purpose: to fight Bolshevism in Germany. The failure of the Kapp putsch (revolution) of 1920 put Prussian militarists in temporary bad odor. The Young German Order expanded as a great war veteran's organization, forgot the Bolshevists, concentrated on Germany's ancient enemies: France and Poland. In 1921 red-cheeked Capt. Mahraun was busy shooting Poles in upper Silesia. Few years ago, like St. Francis of Assisi he saw a great light, reformed...
...arrested when the forgery was committed, were cited by him as proving his innocence as a forger, and the truth of his revelations as a spy, part of which he composed in the Brooklyn jail.) ; 8) Served as chief publicity agent for the famed Kapp putsch, which tried to restore the throne of Germany to the Hohenzollerns; 9) Arrested by the Italian police charged with complicity in the murder of the millionaire Socialist Deputy Matteotti (TIME June 23, 1924, et seq.); Escaped to Ceylon where he became a Buddhist and was known as "Dr. Tandler...