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Harvard's Professor-designate Brüning today bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exile Employed | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...democratic principle is that the majority has the right to govern and that the minority has the right to criticize and oppose the majority. . . . The majority of today shall not put chains on itself and on all future majorities any more than it shall make people of a particular color slaves. It shall not accept a dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: U. S. or Them? | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies and make war, annex and govern territory, De Beers through its affiliates now accounts for about 95% of the world's uncut diamonds. Not all these diamonds come from its own mines. Indeed, the great African "pipe" mines were closed down tight throughout most of Depression.* But De Beers controls Diamond Corp.. haughty successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Diamonds and Joy | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports for the major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR OR MINOR? | 4/24/1937 | See Source »

...when President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive U. S shipping, Joe Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime Commission to govern U. S. shipping as the Interstate Commerce Commission rules U. S. land transport. Mean time, Joe Kennedy had resigned from SEC because he wanted to see more of his wife and nine children. Last week President Roosevelt again dragged Joe Kennedy out of private life to head the Maritime Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kennedy In | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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