Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the opposition, gaunt Socialist Kurt Schumacher replied. The abolition of the "two classes of Germans" was not enough; why, he asked insinuatingly, had not Adenauer mentioned the victims of Naziism, including Germany's surviving 30,000 Jews...
Adenauer would have to combat the big Social Democratic Party, led by rambunctious Kurt Schumacher and shrewd Carlo Schmid. He knew well what was ahead. After the hairline confirmation vote, a photographer asked him to smile. "Aber gern [Be glad to]," Adenauer replied, "for soon I may not have any more reason for smiling...
...scarcity of good scripts. It was an old lament, but this time it rang true. Many established playwrights seemed to be between plays. Of shows hopefully announced for production so far, only a handful involved old hands: Terence Rattigan's Double Bill (a London import); a Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill dramatization of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven and Earth; Garson Kanin...
...turnout was hearteningly big. Nearly 80% of West Germany's voters went to the polls. When all the ballots were counted, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were ahead with 7,357,579 votes and 139 out of 402 seats in the Bundestag. Kurt Schumacher's Socialists got 6,932,272 votes, 131 seats. The vote meant strong support for the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising ideas, a sharp swing to the right...
...major party leaders tempered their tone. Socialist Kurt Schumacher expressed "appreciation that the Allies, especially the Anglo-Saxons, have made serious efforts to help Germany." Socialists, Christian Democrats and Free Democrats agreed that Allied troops and security agencies should stay to prevent Russian aggression, but asked that Allied controls over German affairs be abandoned...