Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Atrocities. The judgment may be somewhat exaggerated, but retailers from coast to coast are solidly optimistic about their prospects. In household furniture alone, says Paul Brandt, president of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, retail sales should top $4.3 billion for a 10% jump ahead of 1958. Boston, Atlanta, Denver. San Francisco retailers already report sales above last year, despite the record Christmas buying...
...over Berlin will not take place," proclaimed West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt last week. Though conceding that "many critical moments" must be expected in 1959, Socialist Brandt based his confident forecast on three successive victories won in the last weeks of 1958: 1) West Berlin's municipal election, in which Communists got less than 2% of the vote; 2) West Germany's demonstration of solid economic support to the beleaguered city; and 3) the Western Allies' united stand against Khrushchev's proposal for their withdrawal...
Instead Willy Brandt was speaking, to the point of hoarseness, to make sure that the Communists got less than their 2.7% of the last vote. The Communist Party is outlawed in the Federal Republic but free to run in quadripartite Berlin. The despised Communists campaigned with the slogan "A vote for the Communists is a vote for normalization" and "Vote against the occupation parties." At a claque-packed rally in West Berlin, white-maned Hermann Matern of the East German Politburo proclaimed that Western commercial planes have no right to fly over East Germany to West Berlin without his government...
Evening after evening Willy Brandt motored from school to factory to beerhall, and addressed what Berliners call "felt-slipper" neighborhood meetings. Masterfully evoking the atmosphere of war's end and blockade, "when we hardly dared hope," the mayor got approving nods from women as he recalled how "mothers cheated themselves to give their husbands and children more to eat," ticked off post-blockade progress ("half a million new jobs, half a million Berliners in new apartments"), and briskly bade cloth-capped workers to stick with Berlin's friends in the West...
This week free Berlin cast its vote: for Mayor Brandt's Socialists, 52%; together with Adenauer's CDU, his coalition polled 89%. But, best news of all, the Communists got a measly 1.9%, even less than their vote before Nikita Khrushchev put Berlin once again to the test...