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...Hamburg Amerika motorship Rhineland was plowing a cautious course along the jaundiced flood of the Yangtze-Kiang, below Hankow, China. In the Rhineland's hold lay tons and tons of starchy little white pellets, a heavy cargo of beans. There was a crunching jar and trillions of the beans spilled about or shivered in their places as the Rhineland collided with the Japanese S. S. Mitsuki Maru. Then quiet again, and a trickling of yellow river water in among the beans. Like the droplets that crawl into men's beards to soften them for shaving; like the droplets...
...Name the natural phenomenon by which beans burst the Rhineland's riveted seams...
...Finance Minister in the two Cabinets preceding his own, Dr. Stresemann's (TlME Oct. 15. 1923) and Dr. Marx's (TlME Dec. 10, 1923), his regime covered the inception of the Dawes Plan (TlME, June 16,1924), the suppression of the Rhineland Separatist revolt (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923), the squelching of Ludendorff's "Beer Hall Revolt" (TlME, Nov.19, 1923) and h i s acquittal of a charge of treason (TlME, April 7, 1924), the death of Hugo Stinnes which toppled his industrial Tsardom (TlME, April 21, 1924), the election of the present Reichstag - the Communists being repudiated...
Black Harvest?Ida A.R. Wylie ($2). A powerful grotesque in the occupied Rhineland...
President von Hindenburg made a donation of 100,000 marks ($23,800). He traveled to Cologne and personally chipped it into a fund now being raised to restore the great Cathedral.† As he journeyed through the recently evacuated First Rhineland Zone (TIME, Feb. 15), crowds of cheering Rhinelanders met him at every station...