Word: maier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leader. Last week by unanimous vote Free Democrat bosses picked a new leader: sly, stubborn Stuttgart Lawyer Reinhold Maier, 67. Taking over from tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...member of the 1933 Reichstag he voted to grant sweeping powers to Hitler, but later got his Jewish wife out to England (in 1939), and himself managed to outfox Gestapo questioners. Named Minister President of Baden-Württemberg by the U.S. in 1945, Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...
...Changed Man. Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only...
...Such is the man who may hold the balance of power after next autumn's elections. Will his Free Democrats deal with the Socialists or the Christian Democrats? Presumably the Christian Democrats would have to retire Adenauer before Maier would sign with them. The Socialists would have to subdue their economic radicalism to get his support. Which way he will lean he will not say. Said Reinhold Maier last week: "One says of the hunter that he doesn't always tell the truth after the hunt. Of the politician one says that he doesn't always tell...
...assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...