Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berlin police began a search for foreign currency, principally dollars and pounds. On the Friedrichstrasse and the Kurfürstendam, 27 raids took place and vast quantities of real money was confiscated. Foreigners were treated like nationals, except when they could prove that they were in transit, when they were allowed to keep their money. All persons received the privilege of calling at the police station after two days to receive the value of their money in marks...
...Adolph Bernard Spreckels, wife of one of the sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly...
...Commission on Transit...
...empire trade." It is expected that a relief for the unemployment tangle will be sought in the Imperial Conference which meets in London in October. During the last quarter nearly 1,000 aliens failed to obtain permission to enter Britain. In this period 87,953 aliens, including those in transit, landed in Britain, 74,633 embarked and permission to land was denied to 926. The corresponding figures for last year: 87,616 aliens landed, 74,213 embarked, 704 were refused permission to land...
...South West of Lithuania and into the sea some 30 miles west of the town of Memel. In February the Lithuanians seized the town and the estuary, which was then under the administration of the League of Nations. Subject to Lithuania making an agreement with the Poles regarding transit facilities in Memel territory, the Council of Ambassadors allowed Lithuania to keep the port, the estuary and the adjacent territory...