Word: thalmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case at issue was a suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible...
...Ernest Thalmann, prizefighter, is the Communist candidate. His party has 45 seats in the Reichstag...
Communists. With the usual fanfaronade of red talk and red flags, the Communists were prompt to nominate one Comrade Thalmann as their candidate for the Presidency but, as far as could be discovered from despatches, no anti-Communist was worrying...