Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrecker of Cabinets. The bitterest years fast followed the happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything...
...world last week. Great storms lashed the Great Lakes (see p. 15), the stock market crashed historically (see p. 45), assassin's guns were pointed in Belgium and Chile (see pp. 27, 32). President Hoover, rumbling through Indiana, felt his special train grind to a stop. A sedan had been placed on the tracks at a grade crossing. Secret Service operatives investigated on the spot. Two Negroes were arrested. They succeeded in convincing their captors that, ignorant of the President's proximity, they had plotted merely to collect damages from the railroad...
...speedy Ford sedan was the clue that led to the arrest of 40 people in North Germany last week, reawakening German interest in the notorious Organization Konsul, bloodthirsty Nationalist secret society which was responsible for the assassinations of onetime Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger in 1921 and Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau...
...reported that shortly before each of the bombs burst, witnesses had noticed a Ford sedan streaking down midnight streets and highways. Methodical detectives buckled down to the task of checking every Ford in North Germany. In Itzehoe, Prussia, a suspicious Ford was discovered last week...
...owner, one Hans Nickels, a onetime Kapitan of Munich police, was pursued to Hamburg, arrested. In the sedan was a cigar box. In the cigar box was a pound and a half of smokeless powder and a time fuse. At the same time Hamburg police raided the apartment of a Hamburg bank clerk, found another bomb containing the same type of powder. The arrest of Bombardier Nickels and the bank clerk led to the discovery of a bomb factory in Berlin operated by a certain Erich Timm. Much more important was the discovery that these men and many others were...