Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help Poland, but she tries it anyhow. When she interrupts Napoleon's ardors with a patriotic supplication, the Emperor becomes irritated but keeps her in mind. On his next trip he wins her heart with his dream for a United States of Europe. On an illicit honeymoon in Prussia, Bonaparte and Marie are idyllically happy till Napoleon's Europe-shattering job calls him away...
...Rhine-Prussia Corp.'s new plant now building will extract from coal 70.000 tons of gasoline and 20,000 tons of byproducts annually, is to be a major supply link in the Fatherland's Rearmament...
Died. Baron Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, 82, most typical pre-War member of Germany's land-owning Junkers, author of the famed phrase: "A lieutenant and ten men would be enough to lay the ghost of parliamentary government in Germany"; in Marienwerder, East Prussia...
...studied 17 years ago, an honorary LL.D. On the platform the premier will meet again his good and potent friend, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, there for the same purpose. Recalling two notable Harvard LL.D.'s-the Marquis de Lafayette (1784) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1902)-Princeton's van Zeeland provided a newsworthy international fillip to the annual intercollegiate kudos season, never more lively than this year at commencements all over...
...French Comedians by Antoine actors reciting something turgid by Moliere, this great but florid painting was once the property of sour-faced Philosopher Voltaire, who gave it to his great admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia. Claiming it as his personal property, Wilhelm II was able to ship it out of Germany to his exile at Doom, later was forced to sell it to Sir Joseph Duveen who passed it on for a handsome consideration to Mr. Bache...