Word: silesian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these words last week the Schlesische Tagespost, reactionary organ of Silesian Nationalists, paid homage to Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime Crown Prince, on the occasion of his 45th birthday. He was born to the late Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, at the Marble Palace, Potsdam...
Averell Harriman and the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought control of the Georg von Giesche Heirs Mining Co. in Poland for $10,000,000 (TIME, June 14). They have just organized the Silesian-American Corp. to operate those Silesian properties as a subsidiary of Anaconda, the first important instance of an industrial enterprise of one 'country so overlording a similar one in another country. Last week Silesian-American sold $15,000,000 collateral trust bonds in Manhattan, to use in operations...
...been reduced to two groups of 15 men instead of three. The detailed itinerary for Group One has just been announced. It includes visits to Bremen, Hanover; Goettingen, Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden under the auspices of the Gernian Student Union; to Posen, Warsaw, Vilna, Lemberg, Cracow, and the Upper Silesian coal and iron fields under the auspices of the Polish National Student Union; and to Buno, Blansko, Prague, Rovensko, Pelsen, Basle, and Nuremberg under the auspices of the Czechoslovak Student Union...
Tour Ten A, June 29 to September 14; with the Silesian Freischaar...
...described above, the German Government took retaliatory measures by repatriating Poles, and the exodoi were completed. There the matter stood and will stand until Dec. 1, when the biting cold of a Silesian winter will add, incongruously enough, fuel to the raging fire of hate that one day must (so many a well-informed critic professes) lead to a bitter European war in which strange alignments of Powers will be seen...