Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haranguing his brown-breasted Fascists from his "Brown House" in Munich, fiery Herr Hitler exhorted them to win the Prussian Diet election April 24, bade them remember that in national German elections the Fascist vote has climbed in round numbers thus...
...Significance. Thoughtful Germans focused their attention not on the presidential poll last week but on the Diet elections April 24 in Prussia. Hamburg, Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Anhalt. In these elections the parties which grouped themselves last week behind the personality of Hindenburg will be fighting their own battles...
...Prussia, keystone of the German Federation, power has been held since 1925 by Socialist Premier Dr. Otto Braun whose support today is based on a Socialist-Centre coalition in the Prussian Diet elected in 1928 (when the world had not heard of Adolf Hitler). In the Diet sit only six Fascists, the "Joke Bloc" elected in 1928. If on April 24 Prussia should go proportionately as Brown as the rest of Germany has gone, there would be elected 120 Fascist Deputies?thus making Adolf Hitler leader of the majority party in Prussia which comprises 60% of Germany...
Stocks rose in Stockholm last week as the Swedish Treasury and private banks pooled $30,000,000 to tide over a leading Swedish bank hard hit by the suicide of overwrought Ivar Kreuger, president of the Swedish Match Trust (Kreuger & Toll). Next day Swedish stocks upped again as the Diet extended for another month the Kreuger & Toll moratorium...
...than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast sum for Japan...