Word: munich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bumke of Munich said that the U. S. methods of sterilizing insane and subnormal persons were "senseless." Doubtless he did not know that in the U. S. (in spite of permissive laws passed last year in Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon and Utah) sterilization, to prevent transmission of mental insufficiency from parent to offspring, is not favored. Top little is yet known about eugenics, U. S. physicians feel, to incur the legal risk of controlling procreation. They feel also that promiscuous sterilization would induce prostitution among women, baser vices among men. Professor Bumke's arguments against such operations duplicated...
...Natural History, who had visited every world's fair since the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. Announcement of the Towne bequest sent experts in agriculture, animal industry, mining and metallurgy, transportation, engineering, aeronautics, etc., etc., flocking to Europe to study exhibits in such places as the German Museum in Munich, which contains replicas or originals of epochal contrivances, including James Watt's first steam engine, Diesel's oil-compression engine, Dunlop's original rubber tires. The finding of these experts will assist Chicago's industrialists as well as New York's, in assembling a record...
Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden was telephoning from Berlin. Local revolutions, prepared throughout Germany by the Independent Socialists had broken out at Kiel (Nov. 6), Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Magdeburg, Dresden. ... At Berlin a tide of civilian workers and mutinous soldiers was milling through the streets. Prince Max demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. The populace, he declared, had been convinced by Allied propaganda that the Allies would never make peace with a Hohenzollern, would trample across Germany to Berlin...
Next day fully 200,000 people crowded into the stadium at Soldiers' Field on the Lake Michigan waterfront, heard addresses by Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich, the Honorable David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, Cardinal Dubois of Paris, Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne, Australia. (The next, 1928, Eucharistic Congress will be at Sydney, Australia.) Cardinal Bonzano himself celebrated solemn Pontifical High Mass. A choir of 60,000 children sang the "Mass of the Angels...
...nobody knows when one of the Ringlings will drop across the continent and pick up the show. This gentility, in the second generation of Ringlings, has taken the form of an active flair for things artistic: Robert, son of Charles, is now singing opera in Munich...