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...Chamber shouting "Death to Briand." They were quickly dispersed. The real attack came inside the Chamber, not outside, and it was not aimed at M. Briand's life. Hour by hour, as the day approached when the National Assembly must choose a new President of France, gruff, sleepy-eyed Br'er Briand loomed larger & larger as leading candidate. His enemies selected a shock squadron of eight orators under Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon to blast...
...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...