Word: wiesbaden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...
...Joseph Rosenstock, new German conductor from Wiesbaden (TIME, Nov. 11) resigned. As the result of critics' railings, he admitted to nervous collapse, presented a doctor's certificate advising retirement. Artur Bodanzky, his predecessor, will return temporarily as guest conductor...
Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...
Last year when Artur Bodanzky resigned as German opera conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan, his successor was immediately announced to be one Joseph Rosenstock of Wiesbaden. Few had ever heard of such a person, all marveled that a comparative unknown was to fill the most important post in the world's most important operatic organization...
...Organization of International Bank at Wiesbaden...