Word: prussianize
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...Berlin the Prussian Electric Co. made an even more direct governmental loan by advancing $5,000,000 to the municipal government to pay current bills, police wages, etc. etc. In return, Prussian Electric is to receive a large interest in the reorganized municipal gas works...
...last of the Hohenzollerns is not the blunt uncultured Prussian delineated by caricaturists. The more attractive side of the former emperor, his genial nature and intellectual propensities, have rarely been recognized in this country...
Sixty years ago last week (while the White House was inhabited by Ulysses Simpson Grant) one Paul von Hindenburg, 23, Prussian lieutenant, cheered himself hoarse in the Palace of Versailles, hailed the first German Emperor, Wilhelm I, hailed Prince Otto von Bismarck's proclamation of the "German Realm," the glorious Deutsches Reich! The Realm or Reich remains-as a republic. Last week the victorious Imperial banners of 1871 were unfurled again in the Reichstag (this time by steel-helmeted Republican troops) and old Paul von Hindenburg, President of the Republic, searched his heart. He is 83. To a microphone...
...protests against the film piled up in the office of the Reich Film Censorship Board, the Nazi menagerie made its appearance in the theatre, amplified last week by the presence of a number of garden snakes that slithered over the feet of the audience, coiled under orchestra chairs. Socialist Prussian cabinet members and officials did their best to express approval of the film by going to the theatre in a body one night, applauding loudly. Said Prussian Prime Minister Dr. Adolf Braun...
...late Oscar von Forckenbeck, high Prussian official, had a consuming passion: the collection of old newspapers and manuscripts. When he died in 1892 he left the fruits of 40 years of collecting-jour-nals in 43 languages from 32 countries. These were bequeathed to the municipality of Aix-la Chapelle which built upon the collection, until, last week, the Technical College at Aachen (formerly Aix-la Chapelle) opened to the public its Newspaper Museum. It contained 150,000 journals in nearly all languages. Oldest example is a copy of Neue Zeitung Tubingen of 1561. Most interesting U. S. item...