Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mission was reported preparing to visit Iraq to study a rail route for aid-to-Russia. This route, the eastern end of Kaiser Wilhelm's old Berlin-to-Bagdad dream, would require 100 miles of track, 4,500 freight cars, 200 locomotives, push U.S. railroads' equipment orders still farther back in the priorities queue...
...Another German mission came to Rome, for no announced purpose. Its leader was Germany's Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, director of Nazi activities outside of Germany...
...eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew a little brighter because of a story that his father was the bastard son of William I of Prussia, which would make him Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin...
...Died. Wilhelm Kienzl, 84, composer of the popular opera Der Evangelimann, given some 300 productions so far; in Vienna...
...biology as a curious youngster, and it remained biology through high school, college, graduate work, as National Research Fellow, International Education Board Fellow at Brussels, Freiburg, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin--Dahlem, as assistant professor at Brown University in 1926-27, as assistant professor at Harvard in 1927, and as Master of Leverett House...