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Word: bracht (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...hand Chancellor von Papen's ousting of the Prussian Cabinet under a decree of President von Hindenburg is annulled and Premier Braun & Ministers are empowered to represent the Government of Prussia. On the other hand the chancellor's appointment under the same Presidential decree of Dr. Franz Bracht as Acting Federal Commissioner to govern the State of Prussia is upheld. In effect the Supreme Court decision recognizes simultaneously two conflicting authorities in Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Two-Faced Supreme Court | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Under the decree which ousted Prussia's Adam & Eve, her Government is vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Partitioning Prussia | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Each province, Chancellor von Papen indicated, will be governed by a federal sub-commissioner under Federal Commissioner Dr. Bracht. Since the people of Prussia and even the German people have had no chance to examine or approve this ultra-arbitrary change, Paul von Hindenburg took his place last week in a class with Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Vital fact: The 84-year-old President and his angelic Chancellor are well known to be guided in their dictatorial steps by sly but patriotic Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher, tireless in his intrigues to restore the goose-step unity and military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Partitioning Prussia | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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