Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't very profitable because . . . they couldn't find a single military man in modern history, not to say American history, but in modern history, except in certain of the Latin American countries. Hitler and Mussolini were not soldiers; and Bismarck, who was almost a dictator until Wilhelm II came along-he was a civilian. So they gave up that argument, and now they are talking about a civilian czar. I don't see any sense...
...comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes an error that is not funny in the least. It introduces an American millionaire (Arthur O'Connell) who does almost nothing for the next hour but spin the wheel of a 155-ft. yacht that used to belong to Kaiser Wilhelm II, goggle at Marlene...
...increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew. Roosevelt astonished the world by honoring...
Across the Atlantic Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm was already brewing a world war that then seemed destined to start over Morocco. At the Algeciras Conference in 1906, T.R.-far from claiming neutrality -unexpectedly threw U.S. support against Germany, and the Kaiser backed down...
Died. Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia, 69, last surviving son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who got bounced from army ranks (he was a major general) in 1940 when Hitler slapped down on old royalty; of cancer; in Munich...