Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Minister Stresemann, and Dr. Luther in his long terms as Finance Minister and sometimes Chancellor, have built up the political and financial base upon which the new Republic squarely rests. Dr. Luther is out of politics at present, was elected a Krupp director last week. But Dr. Stresemann continues at the Foreign Office. So does Dr. Gessler, Minister of Defense since 1920, a prodigious record. It is these statesmen of the middle parties, the "Little Coalition" men, who have wrought the ship of the Republic so strong that last week the Nationalists saw no option but to climb aboard...
...confused with the Camp Fire Girls, founded by the late Dr. Luther. H. Gulick and Mrs. Gulick ("Timanous" and "Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. ?He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust...
Died. Galen Luther Stone, 64, associate founder (with Charles Hayden) of Hayden, Stone & Co. (investments), of Boston and Manhattan; in Brookline, Mass., of heart disease. Financial editor of the Boston Advertiser in his 20's, he became apprentice, to acquire practical experience, in a brokerage firm; met Charles Hayden, 20-year-old ticker-boy-graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with him founded Hayden, Stone & Co. (of late $30,000,000 working capital), to which, say financiers, the greatest group of copper producing companies in the world owes its existence. Vessels of the Eastern...
...Luther. President von Hindenburg took the sensible course of biding his time before choosing a new Chancellor, and cabled stolid, pink-faced, sterling public servant, onetime Chancellor Hans Luther, to return by the first boat from Buenos Aires where he has been vacationing. Dr. Luther has been the outstanding Finance Minister of Germany since the War in numerous Cabinets;* and he held together a cabinet of his own during almost the whole of 1925, forming, another which lasted from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen...
Founded at Zurich, 1523, the Mennonite faith soon afterward received its name from its ablest early exponent, Menno Simons. This young onetime Catholic priest chanced upon some tracts of Martin Luther, experienced regeneration. But he devised tenets more like those of the Quakers than Luther's. Mennonites discard priesthood, own no authority outside the Bible and "enlightened conscience," stress the sanctity of human life (hence will not fight in any war) and "a man's word" (hence never swear...