Word: leipziger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Samson Koerner, heavyweight champion pugilist of Germany, stood upon a railroad platform, about to depart for Leipzig to box Champion Clementel of Switzerland. His sparring partner, one Max Dickmann, wished him aufwiedersehen, put his arms about him, gave him a hug. One of Koerner's ribs snapped. The bout was postponed...
Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...showed ex-Chancellor Marx, Republican candidate, in the lead; but as time wore on, Hindenburg grew stronger and stronger. Marx captured Berlin by a huge majority. At Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Cassel, Heidelberg, Marx scored slight victories over the Monarchists; but the Field Marshal came back strong in Munich, Stettin, Leipzig, Halle, "the reddest town in Germany," Frankfort, Coburg, home of deposed monarchs. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was declared elected President of the German Republic. Returns...
...German Cheka Trial, which has occupied the Supreme Court at Leipzig for several months (TIME, Feb. 23), was ended. Three Bolsheviki were condemned to death, 13 others were sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying between 6 months and 15 years for murder and conspiracy to overthrow the German Republic. When the three men heard their death sentences, they cheered for Moscow...
Died. Fritz Baedeker, 81, President of the firm of Karl Baedeker, publishers of famed tourists' guidebooks; in Leipzig, Germany. At 15, he succeeded his father as head of the firm, brought out English editions of guidebooks printed in German and French, added books until he had covered nearly every country of the civilized world, made his publications nigh indispensable to travelers...