Word: hindenburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Toward Leipsic rumbled a special train carrying an old man whose worst enemies sarcastically admit that he has become almost a god on earth. A cloud of escorting airplanes flew overhead, and the train rumbled on. Crowds cheered as it entered the great Leipsic station. Wearily Paul von Hindenburg descended and passed with tired majesty through a mob whose enthusiasm would barely let him pass...
...clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came a message which the Herr Ober-Burgomaster read amid acclaim: "At midnight the hour of freedom strikes for the first zone of the Rhineland. . . . May the day of freedom soon dawn over the whole occupied territory!"* Where...
...League within three days. Late despatches reported that the Premiers of the Federated States of the German Republic were en route to Berlin, there to indorse formally the German application, the actual text of which was to be drawn up at a Cabinet Council presided over by President Hindenburg...
...Berlin the Monarchist Deutsche Zeitung sharply criticized President von Hindenburg for delaying so long "to hand back to our Kaiser his rightful throne." Meanwhile, 42 persons were injured during riots which ensued after German Communists had hanged Wilhelm in effigy at Charlottenburg (Berlin suburb...
Showdown. Chancellor Luther ascended the Tribune after his henchmen had assiduously bruited it about that he carried in his pocket an order for the dissolution of the Reichstag which bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment...