Word: silesian
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...firm together with Lehman Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other interests are many, include important rail-road directorates. The firm was one of the first to enter Europe after the War, made many a loan in Germany. It has been active in Polish financing, and financed Silesian zinc mines with the Anaconda group...
...tale teller, Herr Gustav Müller, a snowy haired Silesian businessman said...
...Bunzlau, Silesian railroad town on the Sober River, one Eduard Kemp haled his neighbors around his piano. Playing the piano was his forte and he was going to play it for a long, long time. For hours he played. Neighbors gaped, yawned, went home to sensible featherbeds. Next day they found him playing erratically, and the next day more erratically. After 82 hours he ceased. Crazily he challenged the world for his peculiar competition...
Died. Prince Karl Max von Lichnowsky, 68, indiscreetly honest German ambassador at the Court of St. James's just before the War; at his Silesian estate near Breslau, Germany; of apoplexy...
...Unlike the other three Cardinals-designate, Mgr. Binet belongs to no religious order. At present only five Cardinals are members of orders - two Franciscan, one Benedictine, one Jesuit, one Silesian...