Word: vaterland
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...everyone had expected would command the Leviathan when, refurbished after her War service, she was recommissioned in 1923. As a lieutenant commander in the Navy during the War, Commodore Cunningham had navigated the Leviathan as a troopship after she was seized from Germany and her name, the Vaterland, erased...
Returning Seizures. Alien properties seized during the War and still held by a U. S. custodian are now valued at $270,000,000. Many of these properties the U. S. will "buy," i. e. retain and pay for. Example: German ships, such as S. S. Leviathan (once the Vaterland...
...descent put him out of the reckoning and the race was actually between the U. S. and Belgium. On the third day Van Orman, piloting the Goodyear III, dropped into the Atlantic after covering 441.18 miles. He and his equipment were saved by the German ship Vaterland. Next came the news that De Muyter had landed at Quemper in France, having covered a distance of 422.54 miles. It was thought that the American's landing in the sea disqualified him and it seemed certain that the Belgian would be awarded the victory-but one balloon remained unaccounted...
...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 hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...
...general situation in unoccupied Germany was one of indescribable chaos. From almost every corner of the Vaterland came news of food riots, Communist revolts, rival clashes, many people killed and injured...