Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Customs are the favorite U. S. security when lending money to Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua. *Prince von Bismarck, first Chancellor of the German Empire, was in Paris as a conqueror when the German Empire was declared. When he entered the city he was merely Chancellor of Prussia...
...when German armies in the West were plunging through France toward the Marne, the Russian steamroller bit deep into East Prussia. General Hindenburg was jerked from retirement, sent to oppose Russia with brilliant, erratic Erich Ludendorff as Chief of Staff. Followed the most brilliant campaign of the whole War. At Tannenburg one Russian army was annihilated, the other was completely broken up; one Russian General committed suicide. Hindenburg overnight became Germany's hero. His appointment as Chief of Staff was inevitable. Germany burgeoned with wooden Hindenburg idols, stuck full of nails...
...Action. Back from his red brick summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia hurried the 83-year-old Reichspräsident last week to his official Berlin residence, the greystone rococo Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. He did not leave the premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance...
...Paul von Hindenburg cabled humbly from his summer home at Neudeck, East Prussia, to President Hoover...
...great, the historic case of appendicitis was in 1902. It disrupted the social arrangements not only of the British Court but of all courts. Just before the date set for King Edward VII's coronation, with the German Emperor's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, and half the princes in Christendom assembled at London, with delegations from India and the remotest parts of the Empire all assembled, His Majesty's appendix suddenly fulminated, distended, was likely to burst...