Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...televised joint session of Parliament, scholarly, white-haired Dr. Heinrich Lübke, 64, onetime West German Agriculture Minister and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's hand-picked choice (TIME, June 29 et seq.) was sworn in as Heuss's successor. There was no pomp or strut about the transfer ceremony; 106 of Parliament's 564 vacationing members did not even bother to attend, and government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute...
...Konrad Adenauer caught his toe in a rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...
...Bonn, Ike's 23-hour stay was a political windfall for canny old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Party. German Socialists dourly noted the President's airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...this chorus of self-accusation, no voice carried so much weight as that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In a nationwide radio address, Adenauer offered deep expressions of regret to "the likable Polish people," admitted that "Hitler Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland and cruelly destroyed it." But today's Germany, he insisted, "is quite another Germany from that under Hitler ... It is therefore that I say from deep conviction that this Germany, the new Germany, will some day be a good neighbor of Poland...
...beginning of President Eisenhower's British stay, Hagerty had his troubles. He met the press (400 strong, including 50 Washington newsmen) in a stuffy white tent on Carlton House Terrace that was promptly dubbed the "Hagertorium." Earlier Hagerty had startled newsmen by referring to Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as "Konnie." In the Hagertorium, he angered them by resolutely refusing searching questions ("If anyone thinks I'm going to answer that...