Word: westphalia
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...highest wages paid to miners in the Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...
...became king of Italy, he organized the Confederation of the Rhine "in the dearest interestes of his people and of his neighbors, he created the grand duchy of Warsaw and the kingdom of Westphalia. In 1810 nearly all of continental Europe west of the borders of Austria (and some besides) was Napoleon's or dependent on Napoleon. He made his brother king of Spain, his favorite generel king of Naples. He divorced Josephine and married the Archduchess Maria Louisa, he made his baby son the King of Rome...
...poor man's meat" are sensitive about it. In Paris alone 69,323 horses were served up last year. German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed "Strength Through Joy League" the garlic-flavored sausages joyously washed down with golden beer are of horsemeat. enriched with...
...from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce was to be mentioned, the nuns used the phrase "Louis has written a letter"), he advised the sisters to smuggle paper marks out of Germany, pay off the St. Louis debt and further reduce their obligations...
Pouncing on the ancient Carmelite monasteries and nunneries which dot the Rhineland and Westphalia, Nazi secret police last week burst in, searched abbots and mother superiors, monks and nuns. One venerable mother superior died of a stroke amid the raids. Next day the Realmgovernment, concealing all details, announced that batches of Carmelites were under arrest for evading Nazi currency control restrictions, smuggling out of the Fatherland some 2,500,000 marks...