Word: br
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iron Adolf Hitler, Fascist victor in the last election (TIME, Sept. 22), warned iron President Paul von Hindenburg that if iron Chancellor Heinrich Brüning again dissolves the Reichstag and continues to rule Germany under the "emergency clause" (Article 48) of the Constitution, "then the Brüning Government is illegal and will provoke a large part of the German people also to resort to illegal methods...
Chancellor Brüning stuck to his threat, hammered out for enactment (by decree, if the Reichstag refuses to vote it next week) a Reform program which metal-minded German editors at once called "the iron broom of destiny...
...German government feared a Putsch, its leaders hid their emotions well. Both President von Hindenburg and his protege, Prime Minister Brüning (whose Catholic Centre party gained seven seats in the election) ended the week by going off for a rustic, post-election rest...
With the Reichstag disbanded and Germany under the "veiled dictatorship" of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4), with every German politician touring his bailiwick in preparation for the general election Sept. 14, a new political party was organized in Germany last week...
...iron chancellor, who won the "Iron Cross" during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7). dissolved the Reichstag by presidential decree when it would not vote the money he wanted. Last week came the final Bismarckian move. Herr Brüning placed his rejected Budget Bill before Old Paul in the form of a decree, and the President, like Kaiser Wilhelm I before him, signed...