Word: westphalia
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Franz Von Oy is a native of Westphalia. He studied at the Institut fur Seeverkehr and Weltwirtshaft in Kiel, taking his doctor's degree last year. It was during his studies there, in the field of social economics, that he first conceived the idea of pursuing his studies in the United States. "From the books that I read by American scholars, I perceived that I could learn much from these men. I chose Harvard because there I thought I could best get what I wanted...
...occupied on the ground that Germany wilfully defaulted in delivery of reparations. According to the London Agreement of last year (TIME, Aug. 25), the Ruhr was to have been evacuated by Aug. 15, 1925. Düsseldorf, Duisberg and Ruhrort in Rhennish Prussia and not in the Ruhr (Westphalia) are also to be evacuated by that date...
...Westphalia Princessin, Doberman pinscher, owned by Ilisa V. D. Konigstad- a dog with a sly,. Teutonic face, ribald yet alert, lifting her pointed ears sharply, pricking up the small black stump which, instead of a tail, adorned the termination of her vertebrae...
...Plon Plon (Prince Napoleon, second son of ex-King of Westphalia Jerome Bonaparte), so-called because that is supposed to represent the noise of a rifle, and the Prince was said to have funked crossing the Alma during the Crimean War in going to the relief of the gallant Bosquet. . . . once found his match in Esther Guimon...
...grandfather, Mathias Stinnes, was a rich man. His father, Gustav Stinnes, was also rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis of raw materials. As years passed his millions increased, during the War they grew rapidly, and after the War they simply swelled up to grotesque proportions and in 1924 the man, Hugo Stinnes, had won a prestige by the force of cold cash greater than any other man in history...