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Devoutly Catholic and with highly placed Catholic friends (even in France), Franz von Papen became to all appearances a rich, regular and unexciting member of the German Catholic Centre Party, the party led today by ex-Chancellor Heinrich BrÜning. When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been...
In Chicago, 16-year-old Frank Parker of Milwaukee played George Lott Jr., second-ranking player in the U. S., in the third round of the Western championship. Parker playing in short trousers and barelegged, won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3~6 6-3. . In the semi-finals...
Under that system the Republic has been ruled for just over two years not primarily by the Reichstag but by Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world...
Parliamentary experts told the Chancellor that if he dared to face the Reichstag his Cabinet would be overwhelmingly defeated. Therefore Protege von Papen asked Patron von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, which he obligingly did. Within 60 days a new Reichstag must be elected?but in less than ten days...
* Recently ruptured: the friendship of Aristide Briand and his protege Pierre Laval, the great old man withdrawing to his farm at Cocherel.