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...German press, virtually without exception, was thundering against Chancellor Brüning's ''emergency decree," issued in his absence by President von Hindenburg. Its upping of the income tax, gasoline tax. tobacco tax: its slashing of the wages of state employes and the unemployment dole; finally an impression that ''Iron Cross" Brüning had written his decree with a ruthlessness fanatic & unfeeling?all this profoundly displeased the German populace...
Quietly, modestly, but authoritatively and rapidly Dr. Brüning forged upward to Party Leadership which he assumed in 1929. He was and is close to Dr. Gottfried Treviranus, "Hindenburg's Colonel House." It was as the potent old President's protege that Dr. Brüning became German Chancellor (TIME, April 7, 1930) before he was known to Who's Who. In amazement people all over Germany asked each other, "Who is our new Chancellor...
Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
President von Hindenburg is 83 years old. Such men do not throw bottles with all their strength. By the time Cruiser A was about one-third into the water, President von Hindenburg cried out, "Deutschland be thy name...
Next, although the Deutschland was where she was, President von Hindenburg produced and read his christening address. "And now glide down into your element and join the ocean!" read HINDENBURG, a hero so great that no one snickered. "Do your duty there! May it be to give proof of German work and German efficiency and to protect the Fatherland. Always keep your flag clean and high in honor! Then you will be worthy of the name which I give you-Deutschland...