Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disheartened, demoralized and disillusioned with the ineffectual leadership of Erich Ollenhauer and his doctrinaire henchmen, West Germany's Social Democrats have had little to cheer about since their sweeping defeat by Konrad Adenauer two months ago. But last week the Social Democrats plucked up new courage. In Hamburg, the federal republic's biggest city, they turned out the Christian Democratic coalition administration and won election by the biggest political victory in their party's 100-year history...
West Germany's durable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, remarkably unaware that he could slow down at 81, said he will fly down to Rio for a visit next year, at Brazil's invitation, to boost economic and cultural ties...
...Springer also puts out one of the country's most influential serious dailies, conservative Die Welt (245,000), which has on its staff some of Germany's ablest political analysts. Though Die Welt usually supports Konrad Adenauer's government, Editor in Chief Hans Zehrer often reflects the views of Hamburg's world traders that Bonn should establish closer trade and diplomatic ties with Russia and Red China (where Die Welt has its own correspondent...
...Pressure groups, pressure groups-I am being strangled by pressure groups!" grumbled Konrad Adenauer, pacing up and down his Palais Schaumburg study. "I would rather fight three elections than form one Cabinet...
...Canny Konrad Adenauer quietly set up a shadow Economics Ministry in his chancellery to take over if Erhard's prophecies flopped. But the professor's exhortations to Germans to wait for lower prices paid off. The inflation threat faded, and the German economy took off on the boom that has yet to end. Shortly after that crisis, Erhard took a hefty bite on his cigar and told a visitor: "Remember all those announcements I made about controls? You know how many I had to put in force? None...