Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most U. S. news organs and some U. S. news-services put a wrong slant on the story. To the exclusion of other truths it was reported that no Hohenzollern was present at the Death, that a Prussian adjutant of the ex-Kaiser had barked: "The attendance of His Majesty at the funeral is wholly out of the question...
...working last week to whip up the 20,000.000 votes necessary to pass the "Liberty Law" over the Reichstag's rejection. Manifesto. Opponents of the "Liberty Law" were not silent last week. While Hugenberg followers paraded and shouted hoarsely on street corners, both the German Reich and the Prussian State Government issued warnings that any official who actively supported the Hugenberg referendum was liable to instant dismissal. Arresting was an "Intellectual Manifesto" posted in prominent places throughout Germany, published in all but Hugenberg newspapers. Over...
...General Director of the North German Lloyd is a very tiny Prussian (he stands scarce four feet ten) yet full proportioned, hard, compact. A dynamo of vital energy, he has built up for the North German Lloyd a whole new post-Versailles fleet of 700,000 tons. A stickler for short cuts, he insists on being called only "STIMMING." Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General...
Delegates to the Prussian Diet argued hotly over a local bill last week. Came a, terrific crash overhead, a greenish yellow streak of flame ran down the wall behind the president's chair. The lightning, which had struck the roof, injured...
While lightning struck the Prussian Diet, man-made thunder roared and echoed in the German Reichstag across the way. Most of the thunder came from bulky, rumbling Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Germany's quick-brained, bullet-headed Foreign Minister. Almost completely recovered from a long illness (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.), he had returned from pruning his prize roses to defend in his own fashion the Young Plan settlement of German Reparations. The Nationalists were, charging that the Plan will make Germany a "colony" of England and France...