Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President von Hindenburg then called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Müller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer...
...election returns not fully verified last week show that the numerical strengths of the various parties in the forthcoming Reichstag, will be as compared to the previous Reichstag: Socialists 152, previously 131; Catholic Centrists (the party of Chancellor Dr. Wilhelm Marx) 62, previously 68; Nationalists (once the party of Hindenburg) 72, previously 110; Communists 54, previously 45; People's (the party of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann) 44, previously 51; Democrats 25, previously 32, Economic Union 23, previously 21; Bavarian Peoples party 16, previously 19; Voelkische (the reactionary monarchist Ludendorffers) 12, previously 13; Independents 5, previously 3. Peasants...
...Paul von Hindenburg, took a pen into his stiff, rheumatic fingers and wrote laboriously a letter of condolence...
...every few hours, they stand while on duty absolutely motionless, eyes front, shouldering heavy service rifles which are never seen to move, to tremble. Early one morning last week these soldier automatons turned suddenly as though on pivots, snapped to salute, and again became motionless as President Paul von Hindenburg, 81, strode forth with a Feldmarschall's tread, passed down the Wilhelmstrasse into the Taubenstrasse and entered a reeking, beery saloon...
German general election (see p. 14). Never before had Old Paul von Hindenburg voted in the city of Berlin. How he voted is his secret...