Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany Welfare Institutions issue ($2,500,000). The two last named bond issues were offered to the public within a few days of each other, both by Protestant bankers. The house selling the Catholic bonds published in its formal advertisement that 36% of the inhabitants of the German Reich were Roman Catholics. The house offering the Protestant bonds asserted in its newspaper reproduction of the bond circular that "more than two-thirds" of the German population was Protestant. A prominent Jewish banker who is widely known as one of the first wits of Wall Street calculated the total and remarked...
...Minister assumed office, last week, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx cleared up an old, so-called scandal involving the Defense Ministry by bluntly stating that in 1926 it sank large secret funds in defending the cinema industries of the Reich from U. S. competition. Although this involved a very wide interpretation of the Defense Ministry's duties, Chancellor Marx challenged critics to deny that German cinema firms were being rapidly swamped by U. S. competition at the time when they were assisted by the secret funds...
...late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide whether the Reich would extend to East Prussia, this year, financial aid totaling 72,000,000 gold marks. . . . Experts had displayed to the joint cabinets statistics proving that East Prussia, handicapped by isolation, can; not prosper unless temporarily subsidized. The cabinets, impressed, but faced with a necessity to economize, hesitated. Came Hindenburg...
Last week the note was published. Far from showing that the Reich's financial ship was sailing smoothly and serenely, Mr. Gilbert bluntly asserted that the whole fiscal system of the Reich, together with reparation payments, was imperiled by ill-considered overspending and overborrowing. Said he in the opening paragraph of his note...
...case in the German diplomatic service is that of the now German Ambassador to France, Dr. von Hoesch, who was Counselor of the Embassy in Paris before being elevated to his present rank. However, Dr. von Prittwitz is reputedly one of the cleverest diplomats in the employ of the Reich and one that apparently enjoys the full confidence of his superiors in the Wilhelmstrasse...