Word: br
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important character in Wagner's Götterdämmerung is Grane, the horse which Brünhilde gives to Siegfried as testimony of her love, to which she must sing her final immolation music and then ride bravely into the flaming pyre. A good Grane is as hard to find as a good German tenor. He must look spirited yet be willing to stand quietly while singers sing loudly and at close range, strings whir, brasses blare, drums pound and steam hisses up through the stage traps. In St. Paul, when the German Grand Opera visited there last...
...chastened mood the Reichstag reconvened last week from a six weeks recess, found that President Paul von Hindenburg had just legalized by executive decree 26 drastic retrenchment bills prepared by Prime Minister Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning...
Sudden Awakening: "Flat Tire!" In the Palais-Bourbon, imposing seat of French Deputies, foes of sly old Br'er Briand thought they had sufficiently prepared to roast him when the Chamber convened last week...
...motion to adjourn the Reichstag for six weeks. Such a move would have been madness earlier in the week. But today was today. By a vote of 323 to 236 the Reichstag rejected Communist and Fascist motions censuring the Government. Next by a vote of 325 to 237 Herr Brüning was given a free hand with his budget-balancing program which involves a new $125,000,000 foreign loan (TIME, Oct. 13). Then came a setback. Amid extremist whoops the Reichstag voted 395 to 147 an amnesty to all political prisoners who have not actually attacked a member...
Nearly all these "reforms" (except the loan) were urged last spring by former Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert, No. 1 Rutgers alumnus, no iron man (TIME, June 23). Last week as Chancellor Brüning banged his budget into shape he paused only once to jangle out an angry statement that the German Cabinet certainly did not approve what was being said in New York by Germany's cast-iron Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...