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...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Br??ning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...
What did the Red and Brown sensations mean? They can almost be ignored in considering two quiet election facts: 1) that there were recorded a series of small losses to all the centre parties of Prime Minister Heinrich Br??ning's "Concentration Cabinet" (TIME, April 7) which is thus left stranded, discredited; 2) the emergence of the regular Socialist party (after losing ten seats) as still Germany's strongest...
With these paramount facts in mind the result of the election becomes a lucid alternative: either irascible Prime Minister "Iron Cross" Br??ning, protege of President von Hindenburg, will refuse to accept defeat, dissolve the Reichstag a second time as he did last summer (TIME, July 28) and attempt to continue ruling by executive decree; or as is much more likely Herr Br??ning's "Concentration Cabinet" of the Centre will quietly give way to a Left-Centre "Grand Coalition" of these same parties plus the Socialists. In either case Reds and Browns would be excluded, may be counted...
...Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Br??guet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges de Bothezat was conducting researches...
...glowing tales of the big, impressive woman whose mighty voice could make Wagner almost as thrilling as the orchestra. More remembered her as the one who spat at Maria Jeritza three summers ago in Vienna. They recalled dimly the picture the press had given them then of an enraged Br??nhilde storming across the stage, hurling invectives at two of her colleagues chatting and chortling as they awaited their cues in the wings; of that same vicious Valkyrie going at them finally, gathering a maximum of saliva and spitting it. But the enraged Olszewska missed the hated Jeritza...