Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilhelm: "My eldest son, Friedrich, took his eldest son, Wilhelm, to Hamburg, personally inducted him into a clerical situation with an old importing and exporting firm- his first employment. Newspapers headlined: 'KAISER'S GRANDSON CLERK...
...German universities matriculants numbered 60,748 in 1914, 89,346 in 1919. The number of women students (summer term) increased from 4,057 to 8,761 (for 1923). Leading German university enrollments: Berlin (founded 1809), 12,522; Cologne (founded 1388), 5,270; Frankfurt-am-Main (founded 1914), 5,032; Hamburg (founded 1919), 4,571; Munich (founded...
...Hansa (Hamburg-American) ?Prof. Franz Boas, famed anthropologist-explorer; Professor Alexander Marx, famed Jewish educator; Carl Schlegel, Metropolitan Opera basso...
...Albert Ballin (Hamburg- American)?Frederick A. Stock, Conductor of the Chicago Symphony...
Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist: "In an interview given to a reporter on the Reliance, bound for Hamburg, I suggested that a movement be undertaken to induce the inventor of the so-called death ray (TIME, June 2 et seq.), to sell his device to 'an interested body of trustworthy men and women' who would destroy it so it could never be used again. I was reported to have shown deep emotion, to have said: 'I would be willing to undertake a monster benefit performance in New York, giving all the proceeds as a nucleus of a fund...