Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French authorities returned the body to Germany, where the funeral of the saboteur was made an occasion for a wild nationalist outbreak. The coffin was transhipped in solemn state across Berlin. It was stored in the room at the Anhalter railway station reserved for visitors of royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist...
...station of departure, Willy Dreyer was given a rousing send-off on his last journey. Dr. Karl Jarres, the Vice Chancellor delivered a funeral oration, picturing the fate of the 1,500 Germans sentenced for sabotage in the Ruhr. Crying "Down with the Republic! Down with the Jews!" the howling mass of monarchists seized republican flags and tore them up. Cavalry squadrons of Reichswehr charged the monarchists and ended their assault on the flag of the Reich. Their cheers for Hitler and Ludendorff broke up the marching order of 30 nationalist organizations and destroyed their treasonable emblems. Scores were hurt...
...Russell was a professor at Cambridge and in one course he had a rather small class. Mr. Russell's theorles were distimently opposed to the conscription of soldiers and his class sided with him. The class would accompany him to the police station every day to see the latest one of their number to be arrested. "The authorities started at A and worked down the alphabet, taking a man each day," said Mr. Russell, "until I had no class last...
April 23.--Broadcasting, station to be announced later...
...Tribune and The Herald and Examiner, Chicago's best known*morning papers outdo one another. The Tribune arranged to broadcast programs of music, news and general information from the Zenith Edgewater Beach station (WJAZ). The Herald-Examiner (Hearst) has made arrangements to join with Sears Roebuck and Co. in a new station to be opened in April and to be known as WBBX. This station will give special attention to agriculture, weather, financial reports...