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Word: kertscher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Berlin the currency question rages so hot that last week Economist Dr. Max Roosen, who differs violently from the Government's fiscal theories, went down to the Potsdammer Station with his friend Herr Werner Kertscher, an expert on scientific farming. Both were well dressed and one or the other had a pistol. Unnoticed they strolled up to within twelve feet of Dr. Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, who was stamping up & down outside a sleeping car that was to carry him to Basle for a conference with the Bank for International Settlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: All Unquiet | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Bang! ? went the pistol. Dr Luther shouted, "Somebody has shot me!" as Dr. Roosen and Herr Kertscher bolted. Caught by policemen they made no resistance, Economist Roosen announcing with dignity, "We will explain our motives fully ? but only to the Supreme Court at Leipzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: All Unquiet | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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