Word: wilhelms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call attention to an error in the 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...
...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...
...Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral...
...weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer, simple-minded Wilhelm, Bolshevik Kyril Sergeivitch, English Soldier Felix...
...Tsar, inasmuch as Great Man's influence, presumably exerted in sympathy with the program of the large oil companies, might give production restriction an irresistible impetus. But where-ever discussion was unofficial and unpublished, delegates to the tenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute talked of Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, of Royal Dutch, of price wars and of invaded territory...