Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's rational Intellectuals: Playwright Gerhart Hauptmann, Artist Max Liebermann, Professor Adolph von Harnack, Scientist Max Planck. Hindenburg. Just as in Wartime both sides claim the Deity for their partisan, so last week did both armies in the great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted the President's famed speech "protesting the War guilt lie" at the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister Stresemann...
...Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since it was introduced with the full approval of Dictator Stephen Bethlen.† Soon many a Hungarian soldier will receive an old fangled flogging thus: He strips to the waist. Meanwhile whips have been doled out to the men of his company and they line up in double ranks, facing inward. Down the alley of whips the delinquent must march, not too slowly, or a soldier who follows will bayonet him in the back...
...others than members of the royal family produces no happy results." Anxious Rumanians feared a grave crisis, the pitting of the Royal Dynasty against the Peasant Government, the raising of the issue whether Rumania might not be better off as a republic than with her present eight-year-old King Mihai and three Regents. White-lipped and hard-eyed, Prime Minister Juliu Maniu sought Prince Nicholas, found him closeted with the other Regents, Justice Saratzeanu and Patriarch Miron Cristea. "If Your Royal Highness does not see fit to repudiate this interview," the Prime Minister was reported to have said...
...publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal, oil, banks, newspapers, steamships, flour mills, jute mills or coin of His Britannic Majesty's realm derived therefrom. This polygonal fortune had come to her from her father, old Sir David Yule, who had built it up from four mills which devolved upon him from his father-in-law, Andrew Yule, who first made Indian jute world-famed. It was the War's demand for sandbags which caused jute prices to soar and the Yule wealth to become...
...spring tour, adding to its present total of 2,191 concerts. In Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan Symphony gave the first of a series of 30 popular-priced concerts. Dr. Henry Hadley, rarely inspiring as conductor or composer, waved the baton. Ruggiero Ricci, nine-year-old violinist from San Francisco, astounded listeners with a marvelous playing of the Mendelssohn concerto. Like young Yehudi Menuhin, this new prodigy is a pupil of Louis Persinger...