Word: br
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sense of duty. When he took the oath to defend the German Constitution he meant every word of it. He has not deviated. Germans mistrust their politicians but they trust Old Paul. They know he is incorruptible, ein' feste burg. That Iron Chancellor Brüning is a Hindenburg disciple is his greatest strength...
...official Berlin residence, the greystone rococo Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. He did not leave the premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed...
...when they got in power. Suddenly the news spread that Hugenberg owed $5,000,000 to the Danat bank which failed fortnight ago. Then was seen some of the shrewdness of the old man in the President's Palace and his keen-eyed disciple. By letting Danat fail, Brüning and Hindenburg had muffled Hugenberg. Munich authorities, on orders from Berlin, suppressed Hitler's paper Völkischer Beobachter (People's Observer...
Press. Two other important decrees passed over Old Paul's desk before Chancellor Brüning went off to the Paris conference. German newspapers were ordered to print "the full text of any statement or correction which the Government orders to be published without any editorial comment in the same edition and on any page that the Government may select." This was to prevent party organs from garbling official decrees to suit their own ends. "Any periodical endangering the public safety" continued the decree, "is liable to confiscation...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...