Word: franconian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next 16 years Erhard helped run a small, city-supported market-research institute in Nürnberg. It was a backwater existence. Evenings Erhard dined heavily on Franconian smoked meat and dumplings, played the piano or took a hand at Doppelkopf (a four-handed card game) with his institute associates. After World War II broke out, local Nazis pressed Erhard to join Hitler's Labor Front. He refused, lost his post and founded an institute of his own. Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed...
...major demanded: "Are you Erhard? Please come with me." Erhard nervously embraced his wife and climbed in. At the U.S. military government office he learned that the U.S. authorities, impressed by the lack of Nazi ties in his record, had picked him for Bavarian economics minister. But Erhard, a Franconian, a Protestant and a reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle...
From his high-laced shoes (specially built up for his World War I injuries) and long wool underwear bulging beneath his socks to the paper holders into which he jams his long Sumatra or Brazil cigar, Ludwig Erhard has remained true to his staid Franconian upbringing. Though he now wears glossily tailored blue suits, their lapels are usually sprinkled with ashes. His youngest daughter is married to a Daimler-Benz executive. The son-in-law used to work for the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, but Erhard nagged .so persistently that a young...
...Last summer in 86 campaign speeches Erhard proclaimed: "I don't have to make any promises. I have kept them all in advance. Just look around you and see for yourselves." Erhard received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that he raced off across his native Franconian countryside singing Ins Land der Franken fahren from his Mercedes' windows. He outdrew Socialist Boss Erich Ollenhauer three to one in the Saarland's industrial Völklingen. Heckled by Volkswagen workers in Wolfsburg over his plan to sell their state-owned plant, he sent 35,000 letters...