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Significance. Because of numerous interpellations of the coalition Government's fiscal policy, put forward under the Special Full Power Emer- gency Act of last October, Chancellor Marx called upon President Ebert to dissolve the Reichstag (TIME, March 24). Since that time, however, the Dawes report entered very actively into German politics and became coalesced with the financial reforms championed by the Government. The return of this Government to power signifies the acceptance of the Dawes plan by a majority of the German nation; but the plan cannot be passed without the Monarchists' support, for its railway clauses require...
...have been planned for Hugo Stinnes by the so-called German Cheka-but Stinnes' death (TIME, April 21) foiled the Red plot. In Paris, it was persistently declared that the "King of Coke" had committed suicide. For the first time since the French occupation of the Ruhr, President Ebert is to visit the occupied area. The occasion is the Cologne Industrial Fair. Herr Penfick of the National Liberal League and Professor Meyer, "another politician," have testy tempers. Penfick attacked Meyer in a speech, which so enraged the latter that he dashed a glass of water in the face...
...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...