Word: ebert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herr Ebert, President of the German Republic, sat down to a good dinner at the Hotel Adlon, ate as calmly as a German can in the presence of appetizing food. Outside the hotel, pickets representing 25 striking cooks paraded with placards telling the public all about the strike. Although Ebert, as one of the most prominent leaders of the Socialist Party, might have been expected to sympathize with the strike, he showed no distaste at eating a dinner prepared by strikebreaking cooks who had hastily manned the skillets. Count Kanitz, German Minister of Food Supply, also found the food supply...
Aggravated by attempts to upset the Special Full Power Emergency Act of last October, President Ebert, onetime saddlemaker, dissolved the Reichstag, and called for new elections...
Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany: "One Karl Klaffing, a factory worker of Kolditz, wrote me a letter announcing the arrival of a seventh son. Herr Klaffing recalled the custom of the onetime Kaiser, who volunteered to act as godfather whenever a seventh son was born. I wrote Klaffing a letter congratulating him, stating that I would gladly send the baby a little gift, but that I wished to be excused beyond that...
General Hans von Seeckt, Comman-der-in-Chief of the Reichswehr ( German Federal Defence Force), started the move by writing to Herr Ebert, President of Germany. Said he: "I believe the task that fell to me has practically been fulfilled. The authority of the State has been so strengthened that the measures initiated under the exceptional State ordinance for the rehabilitation of our national and economic life can be carried on without it. In case you, Herr Reichspresident, share my view, I request you make it public...
President Ebert replied that he fully shared the General's views and expressed his thanks to him and to the Reichswehr for the excellent manner in which they acquitted themselves of their "heavy task." He then made public the announcement of the revocation of martial law to take effect on March...