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...possible elements charted by Mendeléeff, five remained to be found until last week, when a German Curie, Dr. Ida Tacke of Berlin, assisted by Drs. Walter Noddack and Otto Berg, proclaimed their discovery of numbers 43 and 75, which they promptly named "masurium," after the East Prussian lakes where General Von Hindenburg defeated the Russians in 1915, and "rhenium," after the River Rhine...
Meanwhile, Otto H. Kahn, supposed to have been one of the "interferers" (TIME, June 1), denied through his Manhattan firm (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) that the remark* attributed to him had been correctly quoted, said that they had been made at a private luncheon and did not refer to debt negotiations...
...high official or officials at Washington did not like. The dictum or dicta had to do with debts to the U. S. and was or were to the effect that the Administration's attempt to collect the debts need not be taken as seriously as it sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with...
Arrived in the U. S. Otto Hugo Stinnes, third son of Germany's once greatest industrial magnate, the late Hugo Stinnes. Like all the Stinnes family, he was not given to loquaciousness. All that he would say was: "I am here to study conditions generally throughout the United States and I have nothing else...
...Parties, or Weimar coalition (socalled because these parties secured the passage at Weimar of the Republican Consitution in 1919), true to prediction, joined forces in support of coalition Candidate Wilhelm Marx, ex-Chancellor and leader of the Catholic Party. The Socialists gave in on condition that their leader, Herr Otto Braun, ex-Minister President (Premier) of Prussia, be re-elected as head of the Prussian Government. This was conceded and effected. The Democrats, opposed to a fusion with the Socialists, at first flirted with the Monarchists, but to no avail; later they definitely joined the Catholics and Socialists in support...