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Chancellor Bruning operates his Dictatorship under the cloak of Constitutional Government by the device of having the Reichstag meet every six months or so, rush through a vote of confidence, then immediately adjourn, leaving Herr Bruning to rule by decree. Last week the Reichstag met to pass on Dictator Bruning's latest "Emergency Cabinet." Fortnight ago his chances of survival seemed slender. Adolf Hitler's prestige was rising, he had been received by President von Hindenburg, and moderate Deputies longed for their lost authority, but when voting time came the threatening moderates (who complain of the Dictatorship) lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eliza Bruning | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Fess in High. Some of the public effect of this G. O. P. motion to adjourn politics was spoiled by the behavior of little Simeon Davison Fess, national G. O. P. chairman. He rushed to the White House to say good-bye to President Hoover. He came out declaring: "The time has come when we must let the country know. . . . In other words, we are going into high gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: At the Carlton | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...unnecessary, that by law he had ten days more to pass on the work of Congress. For good measure the President signed 26 bills and sent some 400 others back to the White House for further study. The Senate never did notify the President it was about to adjourn because the notification resolution got caught behind the Thomas filibuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 71st's End | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Commencing after the luncheon tomorrow the discussion of the problematic United States of Europe will be held in the last session of the Assembly. The closing address will be delivered by Professor Webster, and the Model Assembly will adjourn to discuss prospects for next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODEL LEAGUE IS CONVENED TODAY | 3/6/1931 | See Source »

...stated the fact that millions of Great Britain's laboring men will not stand for a tax or tariff of any sort which they think might raise the price of bread. His words were widely said to have "killed the Conference" which made no progress last week, prepared to adjourn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Snuffles, Laborite Defiance | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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