Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe those fortune tellers who predict a return to prosperity provided the Corridor be given back to Prussia! That is a tale for children. A new partition of Poland would be an evil deed...
...rendezvous two months later in Vienna, to parcel out Napoleon's empire. No official summons was ever issued but in two months nearly every major European diplomat was in Vienna. Most of them might as well have been cinemactors; only five nations had anything to say: victorious Russia, Prussia, Austria, England and defeated France. They dealt behind doors, not in open Congress, through shrewd diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria...
...first performance of the Ninth Symphony was a financial failure. Beethoven's reward from the King of Prussia, to whom he dedicated it, was an imitation diamond ring. The concert last week, except for a few $250 boxes, was sold out the day it was announced. The Philharmonic Symphony sent back $10,000 in checks, turned thousands away from the boxoffice. At the hall when receipts were added it was found that Toscanini had earned some $26,000 for his jobless brothers, only $1,000 less than Paderewski raised in Madison Square Garden, which seats 18,903 against Carnegie...
...Today's election leaves the situation obscure," anxiously observed the semi-official Paris daily Le Matin. "Will the most powerful party in Prussia accept being excluded from the Government by means of a Parliamentary maneuver...
Deadlock, for the time being, seemed to be the significance of the election in Prussia. In Hamburg, Anhalt and Württemberg the Brownshirts won similar pluralities, produced similar deadlocks. In Bavaria, second largest German State, the Fascists last week made their poorest showing, were not able to nose out of first place the locally potent Bavarian People's Party...