Word: chancellorship
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...gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich chancellorship a decade later, he posed as the "lonely wanderer out of nothingness" who had come to power. Finally there was the "imitation Wagnerian end" in a bunker in burning Berlin...
Nonetheless, the cool, intelligent Barzel managed to expand his power. He won election as C.D.U. chairman in October 1971, and was chosen to be that party's candidate for the chancellorship, running a losing race against Willy Brandt in the November 1972 general elections. He was re-elected to a one-year term as parliamentary leader of the C.D.U.-C.S.U. last December. Last week Barzel suddenly quit as floor leader, and his days as party chairman appeared to be numbered. Said Barzel: "I cannot represent as chairman a majority decision on an important matter which was taken against...
...conducted a deliberately low-key campaign. He performed well, but seldom turned crowds on, and somehow gave the impression of lacking conviction. In a way, he was under more pressure than Brandt: this was probably the only chance that the C.D.U. would give him to try for the chancellorship...
...Papen contrived Schleicher's fall and convinced Hindenburg that the way to neutralize Nazi power was to give Hitler the chancellorship and then surround him with conservative ministers. Within a year Schleicher had been killed and Germany belonged to the Führer...
...does not rule out violence, as the SA's activities demonstrated (and the United States government continues to demonstrate), but further putsches were ruled out. During the next decade, the Nazis exploited the freedoms granted them and their tactics were rewarded with Hitler's constitutionally legal accession to the Chancellorship on 30 January 1933. History doesn't record if any grave liberals "gave him the finger" or turned their backs on him that...