Word: posen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger training to be the mainstay of a republic than Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was born in Posen (now part of Poland), on Oct. 2 1847 and brought up as a perfect little Junker. His father had been a soldier, all his ancestors were soldiers: no other career was considered for him. He never spoke to his father without snapping to attention. When he was three or four he had for a nurse an ancient harridan who had served as a canteen woman in the Napoleonic wars. When little Paul so far forgot himself...
Married, Katherine Silva Cornell, 17. heiress to the late Oilman Robert Oglesby; and Count Jan Drohojowski, Berlin correspondent for the Kurjer Poznanski of Poznan (Posen), Poland; in Tulsa, Okla. Headlined the New York Telegram: COUNT WEDS...