Word: ludendorffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. General Eric von Ludendorff, "the brains of old Paul von Hindenburg," now active in German: Fascist politics, by Frau Ludendorff, daughter of a wealthy dairyman; in Berlin. She was said to have annoyed the General by incessant smoking. Frau Dr. Martha yon Kemnitz, ultra-Fascist publicist, was mentioned last week as his potential fiancee...
...Cabinets preceding his own, Dr. Stresemann's (TlME Oct. 15. 1923) and Dr. Marx's (TlME Dec. 10, 1923), his regime covered the inception of the Dawes Plan (TlME, June 16,1924), the suppression of the Rhineland Separatist revolt (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923), the squelching of Ludendorff's "Beer Hall Revolt" (TlME, Nov.19, 1923) and h i s acquittal of a charge of treason (TlME, April 7, 1924), the death of Hugo Stinnes which toppled his industrial Tsardom (TlME, April 21, 1924), the election of the present Reichstag - the Communists being repudiated at the polls (TIME...
...Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew-Vistula-San-Carpathians front (1915) to lines so well chosen that they held for two years longer. During that time many an Allied commander thanked God that the Grand Duke was keeping several German armies so busy that...
Died. General Alexei Alexeivitch Brussilov, 70, perhaps the most brilliant strategist of the former Imperial Russian Army, in 1916 very nearly successful in outmaneuvering Ludendorff on the southern Russian front, after the Russian Revolution a commander in the Red Army, at all times rated as a superb cavalry leader; at Moscow, of inflammation of the lungs...
...extreme Left of the Reichstag the Communists groaned; at the extreme Right the Ludendorff Voelkische Deputies stamped and hissed. Atop the Tribune, Chancellor Luther stubbornly defended his newly created "Little Coalition Government" (TIME...