Word: mecklenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orange-colored sport roadster. Her father had done very well in post-War Berlin. Starting as a boss teamster, he had specialized in hauling garbage, eventually opened several produce markets in Berlin suburbs and speculated in real estate. He invited Sigvard to his hunting preserve in Mecklenburg, to his country house on Lake Stechlin outside Berlin...
...massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed...
...good woman of plain tastes; she has an Eastern empire and a fat Prince Consort; she is the Queen Victoria of today; she was last week in Paris for the first time in 19 years-Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Hon. LL.D...
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) was born in a Mecklenburg parsonage, apprenticed to a grocer at 14 after a sketchy schooling. Business was Heinrich's dish; he prospered so exceedingly that soon he was supporting his family, writing them how they were to behave. Business took him all over Europe, to the U. S. (he made a small fortune in California, became a U. S. citizen), to Russia, where he lived many years and made a disastrous first marriage. Schliemann's hobby was languages. At 33 he spoke 15 tongues but was concentrating on ancient Greek...
...which any insubordinate gangster would be expelled from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...