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Gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg gurgled and thundered in terrifying fashion last week, according to reports from his summer Red House at Neudeck. Chancellor Heinrich Brüning had just come out from Berlin in hangdog fashion, admitted that the Budget was in chaos, presented the resignation of Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer...
With 82 honorable years upon his head, Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg received last week, on the fifth anniversary of his election as President, the homage of the whole German press and nation-excepting only the Communists and Kaiserphiles, the "lunatic fringes...
Probably 95% of the Fatherland's ballot casters would vote for HINDENBURG today, yet five years ago he was chosen by but 14,600,000 ballots, while his Centre Party rival, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, received...
...whole Left and Centre voted against the Feldmarschall because they feared he would use the power of the Presidency to restore Wilhelm II. The whole Right voted for Hindenburg in hopes that he would do what the Left feared-but today substantially all Germans are glad that "Old Paul" has played the rôle of President in straight, constitutional fashion, with no asides...
...great-grandfather's name was von Beneckendorf, but this ancestor's eccentric great-uncle von Hindenburg left him some money on condition that he add "und von Hindenburg" to his "von Beneckendorf." Never before, perhaps, did a "freak will" succeed so well...