Word: stettin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain of the military seizure demanded by Armed Poland. When...
...Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), lost to Sweden, by obstinate and unnecessary warring against the European Powers and Peter the Great of Russia, Baltic provinces stretching from Stettin to Reval, and in so doing reduced his country from the rank of a first-class power...
...reports showed ex-Chancellor Marx, Republican candidate, in the lead; but as time wore on, Hindenburg grew stronger and stronger. Marx captured Berlin by a huge majority. At Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Cassel, Heidelberg, Marx scored slight victories over the Monarchists; but the Field Marshal came back strong in Munich, Stettin, Leipzig, Halle, "the reddest town in Germany," Frankfort, Coburg, home of deposed monarchs. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was declared elected President of the German Republic. Returns...
...value of marks or in dollars. A certain excellent luncheon on the train cost us fifty-two marks each,--the equivalent of seventy-eight cents at exchange then current. Similarly with railway fares: The first class fare from Cologne to Berlin was 330 marks,--or $4.45; from Berlin to Stettin, 85 marks, or $1.28; and from Berlin to Frankfurt including sleeper, or, 191.60 marks, or $2.87. The fare by mail-plane from Berlin to Dortmund,--a trip for which we were booked, but missed on account of fog,--was 500 marks...