Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title below the picture on p. 14, TIME, Nov. 25? It should read "Theodore Roosevelt and Friends," omitting "Kaiser Wilhelm," for he was not there. This picture was taken early in the morning, May 10, 1910, at the exit of the private waiting room of one of Berlin's railroad stations (Stettiner Bahnhof, I think), while the Colonel and members of the American Embassy there to receive him waited for their conveyances to come up. The crowd outside was cheering. I recall this occasion very distinctly and even more distinctly the actual meeting of Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor Wilhelm...
...Berlin it is sometimes popularly supposed that the titanic rivals in U. S. finance are J. P. Morgan & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Last week, pink-cheeked, socialistic, optimistic Finance Minister Rudolf Hilfer ding found himself short of cash for year-end budget requirements. He hastily sought to arrange an $100,000,000 loan with Dillon, Read & Co. by cable...
...several days the wires hummed merrily about millions. Then suddenly jovial Dr. Hilferding was jerked up short by brusque Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank. A watchman of Germany's cash drawer, Dr. Schacht barked that he would not O.K. the loan. Scareheads in the Berlin press screamed that Dr. Hilferding would have to resign because now his budget would not balance. There were predictions that the Cabinet was due to fall...
Earlier in the week Dr. Schacht intervened in negotiations by the City of Berlin with Dillon, Read & Co. for a $14,400,000 loan, squashed it. Berlin understands"that the City was about to hire the money from Dillon, Read for 8.6%, that Dr. Schacht offered to supply it from the Reichybank...
Pastor Helm trained for the ministry at Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis and the Cathedral Seminary in Berlin. He is young (28), blond, foxy-faced, married. Pastor Helm resigned once before: in 1923, when pastor of the Royalton, Wis. Congregational Church he preached a sermon "debunking" the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, and was asked to leave...