Word: germans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic power does the U. S. exert its imperial will. By shutting off loans to lagging debtors it forced settlement of the War Debts. Its agents administer the finances of Bolivia, Salvador, Liberia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Santo Domingo. U. S. Citizen Seymour Parker Gilbert holds the purse strings of German Reparations as formulated by U. S. Citizens Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young...
...never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...
...World War is not yet ended. . . . I hope a new German Army will carry on the old Prussian spirit and virtue. I pray to witness the beginning of the Fatherland's resurrection...
...rich and red and military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg had his 50-year-old friend and comrade General Mackensen privately, intimately for lunch...
Last week Herr Bosch practically reversed the court's settlement, not by any legal action but by an agreement with his U. S. rivals. Closely did this follow rumors that German Bosch had been buying stock in U. S. Bosch. Terms of the plan (which will last 49 years) are that in the U. S., its dependencies, Canada. Mexico and Cuba, American Bosch Magneto Co. can use on all its products the magic name Bosch and the German interests must use the full title, Robert Bosch, while in other parts of the world the German's will...