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Convention Chairman Konrad Adenauer insisted, for history's sake, that the constitution be adopted on that grim anniversary; he managed to have the final vote (53-to-12) taken five minutes before midnight...
...Unbelievably Better." This hostility was far from unanimous. Ernst Reuter, Berlin's hard-hitting Socialist mayor, just back from a trip to the U.S., said the agreement was "unbelievably better than anything we had expected after all those months." Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, president of the Bonn council, warned that "failure to reach agreement [at Bonn] would be a fiasco for the democratic idea and a catastrophe...
...first X-ray pictures ever made had nothing to do with pure science. In 1895, German Physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen made an X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, to make her appreciate the work he was doing and forgive him for having slighted her cooking...
...formal, orderly vote was taken on Reimann's motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
Franz Czisch refused to protest the election. "It is no good," he said. "Even if Konrad is removed I would not continue the job. The people have spoken." Charles M. La Follette, former Congressman from Indiana, now Military Governor of Würt-temburg-Baden, ordered an immediate investigation, expressed "grave concern...