Word: walther
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important Folk. Dr. Walther Simons, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court, was introduced as the guest of honor by past-President Silas Hardy Strawn after an organ rendition of "Tannenbaum" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dr. Simons compared the relation of the German and U. S. judiciaries to the executive and legislative branches of their governments. Hoped he: that the German Supreme Court would "reach the place in Germany that the Supreme Court holds in the United States...
Literary circles in many countries have hummed for months with praise of Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa, sharp, beautifully written novel of War life on Germany's Eastern Front. But the praise of literary circles meant little to portly highbuttoned Lieut. Col. Walther von Bogen, editor of the sedate Journal of German Nobility, who, reading novelist Zweig's book, found to his horror and amazement that it was vulgar, pacifistic, shockingly outspoken, likely to cause discontent among German troops. Editor von Bogen wrote a review in which he said that Novelist Zweig...
...Walther Gruhl, 32, 5 ft. 8 in., 150 lb., brown hair, blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, wanted for the same robberies as Stevenson...
...interdenominational International Society of Christian Endeavor; membership, circa four millions. Especially active in it are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples. Approximately half of the young Baptists belong to it, the other half are members of the Baptist Young People's Union. Young Lutherans have their own Luther League, their Walther League. Similarly the Methodists formed their own Epworth League a few years after the founding (1881) of Christian Endeavor...
...Walther von der Vogelweide", Professor Howard, Sever...