Word: herren
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...citizens) had to scrawl JA on their ballots. The tactics of Chancellor Brüning and Premier Braun of Prussia were not to urge citizens to vote against it, but to urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment. This high-handed order won a lot of votes for the extremists. Even...
...could understand the taunt that I was trying to keep my ministerial post," he roared, "if it were that of manager of a garbage removal company! The garbage job, meine Herren, would be more lucrative and less filthy than mine...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
...Meine Damen und Herren," began the detective, "Ladies and Gentlemen, attention!" And with gloating gruesomeness he would "describe one of the 20 recent murders. The girl-perhaps the detective would choose to describe Maria Hahn- the girl was returning home at dusk when she was seized upon and subjected to such-and-such cruelty, slashed in such-and-such a way, murdered thus-and-so, finally buried in soft clay soil near a farmhouse...
Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...