Word: ebert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy Socialist vote. It seems unlikely that the Socialists, who are Protestants, will vote for a Catholic priest; but the Catholic Party tried to bring pressure to bear on the Socialists by reminding them that it was mainly by virtue of the Catholic vote that the late Herr Ebert was appointed President...
...deep roll of muffled drums, the coffin bearing the body of President Friedrich Ebert of Germany (TIME, Mar. 9) was carried down the steps of the Presidential Palace in Wilhelmstrasse, placed in the waiting hearse, covered with the black, red and gold flag of republican Germany...
...this square, the coffin was placed upon a black-draped platform, great, smoking funeral pyres at its corners. Here the corpse of Ebert remained in tate for several hours while troops marched past to the strains of Chopin's and Beethoven's solemn music an:! while sorrowing Berliners took their last look at the remains of their late chief...
...Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp. A vast crowd of notables, who had arrived in 43 special trains, formed a long and impressive queue of mourners. Among them were Frau Ebert, two Fraulein Ebert, Ebert's only son, a brother and a sister, Chancellor Luther, Reichstag President Lobe, ex-Chancellor Marx...
...tolling-bells were drowned in a roar of gunfire-the body of Friedrich Ebert had baen lowered into its last resting place, following a Catholic burial service.* Then, all was quiet except for the shuffling of unwilling and retreating footsteps and the thump of the earth as the diggers began to fill in the grave...