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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chancellor Heinrich Brüning dared to do last week that which no German statesman has dared since the days of "The Iron Chancellor," Prince von Bismarck...
...When Signor Grandi and I parted," said Br'er Briand with a lift of one shaggy eyebrow, "I certainly was under the impression that we had agreed to adopt the most expedient procedure to insure success of the negotiations. . . . Unfortunately a new fact arose. . . . The Leghorn speech was made. Then there was the speech at Florence and finally that at Milan...
...Sunday was feast day of Saints Peter & Paul. His Holiness continued what was becoming a physically painful ordeal, canonized ten more saints. Two were Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, illustrious Jesuit, and Theophilus Da Corte. The others were the first North American saints, all martyred by Indians-Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gamier (Jesuit priests), René Goupil, John Lalande (laymen) (TIME, April...
Inept Professor Moldenhauer estimated when he brought the Budget in that it would exactly balance. Last week he discovered instead a deficit of $178,800,000. Members of the Brüning Government, a "Cabinet of Nobodies," know well enough that their tenure of power is dependent on the will and prestige of HINDENBURG. Sheepishly in the Red House the Chancellor was understood to have proposed that Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, recently Director of the Reichsbank, should be made Finance Minister...
This amounted to suggesting that the Government run to cover, hide behind the long black skirts of Dr. Schacht's frock coat. Such a plan did not please HINDENBURG. Wrathfully he told Herr Brüning to take the Finance Ministry himself, bade him clean out a sty of ineptitude which he should have smelled and disinfected long...