Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swine! Swine! Scared to dissolve! Scared to lose your seat! Scared swine! Scared swine!" chanted Fascist Deputies in the Prussian Diet (State Legislature) last week. Thus they expressed their wish that Dr. Otto Braun, famed Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, should dissolve the Diet, order an election. The Prussian Fascists knew they would make large electoral gains, because the German Fascists won so heavily in the recent Reichstag poll (TIME, Sept. 22). They called Socialist Braun "swine" and "coward" because he is not simple enough to play into their hands...
Convening last week the Saxon Diet (State Legislature) reacted sharply to Fascist Adolf Hitler's success in winning millions of votes by "impossible promises" to secure reduction of Germany's Reparation debt to nil, etc. (TIME, Sept...
...impossible promises are good politics, why not impossible demands? With shrewd vote-getting intent the Saxon Diet voted 82 to 12 a demand that the German Government "immediately initiate negotiations for revision of the Young Plan" (i. e., for reduction of German Reparations payments). Similarly if the New York State Legislature thought that their constituents wanted the moon, they might vote that President Herbert Hoover must go mooning...
...gime (diet...
...from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were by no means sure of even legalistic success. This made Dr. Fosdick the spokesman of non-Literalist Christianity. Upon him devolved the duty of presenting a "reasonable" Christianity which was not merely a milk & water diet of ethical excellencies. This crisis does not pass. And because it does not pass Dr. Fosdick can pack any church anywhere any time...