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...plebiscite over 50% of the qualified voters in Prussia (roughly 13,500,000 citizens) had to scrawl JA on their ballots. The tactics of Chancellor Brüning and Premier Braun of Prussia were not to urge citizens to vote against it, but to urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Letting Go | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...Standards physicist, had determined more accurately than ever before the value of G, constant of gravitation. He found it to be .00000006670 dynes.* The most commonly accepted value for G has been .00000006658 dynes obtained in 1895-96 by Physicists Charles Vernon Boys in England and Karl Ferdinand Braun in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: G | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...number of garden snakes that slithered over the feet of the audience, coiled under orchestra chairs. Socialist Prussian cabinet members and officials did their best to express approval of the film by going to the theatre in a body one night, applauding loudly. Said Prussian Prime Minister Dr. Adolf Braun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazi Beasties | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Following the "plate glass riots" in Berlin, when nearly every Jewish department store had its windows smashed (TIME, Oct. 27), Prime Minister Otto Braun of Prussia decided last week that he needed a new, ruthless Minister of Interior. (In European countries generally the Minister of Interior controls the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 'Ruffian Methods | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Logically Prussian Braun thought of Herr Wilhelm Karl Severing who, recently Minister of Interior for all Germany, handled his Schupo (national police) with such hard-boiled dash that they nicknamed him "The Dragon Slayer." Asked if he would consent to become Minister of Interior of the State of Prussia, Herr Severing accepted instantly, believing that it is in Prussia, in Berlin, the Capital, that Schupo must break Fascist Adolf Hitler's "brownshirt" movement if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 'Ruffian Methods | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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