Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first German Presidential Election was a quiet, stolid affair, members of the Cabinet voted at a little beer house in the Taubensi The first to arrive was Prussian Minister of Justice Zehnhof, follow by Acting President Walter Simons, to vote for a successor to himself. Next came Foreign Minister and Frau tav Stresemann. Dr. Stresemann began to make out his ballot on a table, was told by a clerk that he must do it in a booth. With a sigh and a terrific squeeze; the portly Doktor entered a small booth. At Potsdam, Prince Friedrich, second...
...bromine, Is this important? Yes, if photography, especially moving pictures, are important. Bromides of silver and potassium are essential to their welfare. Yes, if ethyl motor fluids are important; if certain medical sedatives are important. The world is short of bromine, and the chief sources?salt deposits in Prussian Saxony, brines in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Chile ?do not bid fair to replenish the supply...
...Wilhelm Marx, cleric, is candidate of the Centre or Catholic Party. Last year, Dr. Marx was Chancellor in succession to Chancellor Stresemann. Recently, he was appointed Minister President of the Prussian Government (TIME, Mar. 2) but failed to obtain a vote of confidence and had to resign...
...Otto Braun, former Prussian Minister President, is the Socialist candidate. Dr. Braun is supported by the strongest individual party (130 Reichstag seats) in Germany; but there is no possibility of obtaining political allies and, therefore, he stands no chance of being next President of Germany...
...before he had left the College de Saint-Clement at Metz, the Franco-Prussian War broke out and, like young Joffre and Castelnau, he served France's lost cause. The next year, he went back to Metz and, in July, passed the entrance examinations for the Polytechnique at Nancy, which town was still occupied by the Germans. At the Polytechnique he was a classmate of Joffre, a few months his junior. It is not certain if they were close friends...