Word: wirth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vision materialized at Vienna last week when France, Belgium, Austria and Finland sent official representatives to discuss Pan-Europeanism with the unofficial representatives of 22 other nations -Germany being represented by onetime (1921-22) Chancellor Karl Joseph Wirth...
Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
Ensconced at a table in Jakey Wirth's swell beer saloon they were partaking of hohn kukken and tongue blood pudding...
...Gathering. Crossing the boundaries of their fatherlands, legislators last week made their way towards Washington. Ex-Chancellor Josef Wirth, of Germany, lately resigned from his party (TIME, Sept. 7, Germany), was among the first arrivals. Frenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, Italians, Swiss, Rumanians, Austrians, Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Serbs, Swedes, Poles, Irish, Magyars, Belgians, Bulgarians, Canadians, Egyptians, Finns, Dutchmen, Norwegians, Danes were on their...
Thus the former leader severed his connection abruptly, precipitately. And what was the cause? For the past few months the Centre has been tending more and more to the Nationalist Right. In particular it supported the high tariff proposed by the Nationalists. But Herr Wirth has grown closer and closer to the Centre's former allies, the Socialists. On one occasion he remarked: "The enemy stands at the right. If it ever comes to a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat I desire to give notice that I shall be on the side of the proletariat...