Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heidelberg, famed University town, in the year 1871-the year that saw the end of the Franco-Prussian War-that a baby was born to the wife of Tailor Ebert. That baby was christened Friedrich and was known as "Fritz...
...State of Prussia being related to the Reichstag much as the American States are to Congress, it was of more than parochial interest that ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx consented a fortnight ago to head the Cabinet of the Prussian Diet...
...months ago, the Barmat Brothers failed; the Government lost about $15,000,000 and the Prussian State Bank several more millions. The Reichstag and the Prussian Diet formed each a commission to inquire into the affairs of the Barmat Brothers...
...Berlin, a man well known in Germany but little known abroad, a man feared, hated, despised, as was the sombre, inscrutable, all-powerful, Hugo Stinnes-this man was arrested on the suspicion of having defrauded the Prussian State Bank and on a charge of usury. Subsequent inves- tigation failed to substantiate the charges and the man was discharged last week...
This time, however, the President decided that sue he must. The case was to be held in Magdeburg, a commercial town in Prussian Saxony about 80 miles southwest of Berlin. A terrific campaign against, the President was waged by the Monarchist press, while the Republican press was equally active in the opposite direction...