Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facing President Paul von Hindenburg last week was a properly baked pretzel lour feet long, a pair of suspenders brightly stitched by a little girl, several cases of "Dear Lady's Milk"* sent by an old gentleman and some 22,000 other presents, plus 1,700 cable and radiograms received on the President's 85th birthday...
...happiest birthday present. Therefore-Vorwartsmit Gott!" By next morning astute campaigners for von Papen had adopted as their political slogan the President's reverent words: ''Forward with God!" This was more than many a German could stomach. If von Papen was stealing the nimbus of von Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral campaign, the President was openly and savagely attacked. Brown-Shirt bands of Hitler Nazis (National Socialists) rushed about Berlin, sticking up everywhere posters which read: HERR PRESIDENT VOX HINDENBURG...
...Sept. 19) for fear it would vote down the President's decree cutting employes' wages and subsidizing employers by granting them tax remissions in the form of negotiable certificates. The Reichstag, after it was dissolved, voted down the President's decree 513 to 32 but von Hindenburg and von Papen successfully held this vote to be illegal. Therefore their cut-&-subsidize decree remains in force...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg. 85; Richard B. Harrison (God in The Green Pastures), 68; Oscar (Waldorf) Tschirky, 66; Mahatma Gandhi, 63; King Christian of Denmark, 62; Charles ("Gabby'') Street...
...means or otherwise to fortify their power. Perhaps the Government's "military sport camps" will entice young voters away from the "private armies" already maintained by Germany's Fascists, Socialists and Steel Helmets. Perhaps Germans will obey for a while longer the absolute will of Paul von Hindenburg who celebrates his 85th birthday next fortnight. Commented Karl H. von Wiegand, No. 1 German Hearstman: "There is one man in Germany who, like Gandhi, wants nothing for himself but everything for his country: Hindenburg...