Word: hindenburg
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...Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which Germany is permitted...
...have not seen Paul von Hindenburg for 70 years,* except on innumerable posters and pictures, during the War and afterwards. . . . Yet I remember him distinctly - tall for his age, athletically built, and handsome...
With the moisture of nostalgia glistening in his eyes, Tale-Teller Miiller concluded that when Paul von Hindenburg left school to enter the cadet corps he wrote to his brother...
Spurred by these revelations, snooping reporters went out to the boyhood school of President von Hindenburg at Glogau, Silesia, and there discovered the following scholastic report of his studies, conduct...
...Apart from a period of time when he was seriously ill, Paul von Hindenburg attended school regularly. He was an industrious boy, but lately slackened...