Word: sahm
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Hoover had preceded him there. Their guests included George Woodward Wickersham, Bruce Barton, Newbold Noyes (Washington editor), Edgar Rickard (old business friend). Behind him the President left a world still echoing with his praise. Happiest of cities was Berlin. Its 6 ft. 6 in. Ober-burgermeister, Heinrich ("Uncle Sam") Sahm, went before the International Convention of Building Trades fervently to declare: "I propose President Hoover for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a candidate without competition. His action means more for real peace than anything done in the last decade." The great Berlin Tage-blatt observed sagely: "The philosopher Wilson...
While Herbert Hoover was controlling food in occupied Belgium, Heinrich Sahm was official German administrator of food and community bodies in occupied Poland...
...Herr Dr. Sahm is 6 ft. 6 in. tall. After the War he became for ten years Senate President of the Free City of Danzig, "World's Tallest President...
...Last week Langer Heinrich ("Long Henry") was enthusiastically chosen not Buürgermeister but Oberbür germeister (Lord Mayor or Chief Mayor) of Berlin in which there are some 20 district mayors. Always popular, Herr Dr. Sahm seemed last week especially to delight Berliners, his election producing two elephantine jokes heard everywhere...
...Everything will be all right now -we have an Uncle Sahm...