Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departure, Willy Dreyer was given a rousing send-off on his last journey. Dr. Karl Jarres, the Vice Chancellor delivered a funeral oration, picturing the fate of the 1,500 Germans sentenced for sabotage in the Ruhr. Crying "Down with the Republic! Down with the Jews!" the howling mass of monarchists seized republican flags and tore them up. Cavalry squadrons of Reichswehr charged the monarchists and ended their assault on the flag of the Reich. Their cheers for Hitler and Ludendorff broke up the marching order of 30 nationalist organizations and destroyed their treasonable emblems. Scores were hurt...
...discussed at length the factors that influence burning, showing how, by the addition of certain third substances, such things as iron could be made to combust and burn. Many different forms of flames were illustrated on a big table raised on the platform and Professor Lamb produced one mass of flame which he calmly held in his hand and picked to pieces...
They included three separate and unsuccessful attempts to link Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to "wild parties" in California, Hawaii, and Arizona...
...John Coolidge and Calvin Coolidge, Jr., applied for enrollment in the Citizens Training Camp to be held at Camp Devens, Mass., in August; felicitations went from the White House to John C. Coolidge in Vermont who celebrated his 79th birthday. (No presents are sent by the Coolidges on birthdays, but the White House cook baked a cake for the elder Coolidge...
...months ago it was reduced to a mass of ruins; today it is a collection of barracks, tents and temporary structures ; tomorrow it must be a massive building of reënforced concrete, able to withstand fire and earthquake, to minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted, and, above all, able to testify to the fact that Christianity is a religion of service and has no limitations of nation or race. With the destroyed churches and educational institutions. rebuilt in Tokyo, and St. Luke's working in coöperation, we shall be playing no small...