Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dander of Old Paul had been rising for several days. In the first place the President of Germany, who is Honorary President of the patriotic but illegal Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet") military organization, had quarreled on Stahlhelm's behalf with the Government of Prussia...
Knowing that Old Paul was about to begin a triumphal tour of the liberated Rhineland, Dr. Otto Braun, Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, refused to relax his rule that Stahlhelm members may not parade or demonstrate in Rhenish Prussia, which includes such an important city as Coblenz. "This is unequal treatment which I find unbearable!" wrote the President to Dr. Braun last week and threatened to omit Prussia's end of the Rhineland from his tour...
...when the operas of their great Richard Wagner are "canned" in talking cinemas, it must be done under State supervision. There must be due respect, no garbled versions, no duplication. To prevent such contingencies an agreement was reached last week in Vienna between the combined German State theatres of Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony, and the Vienna State Opera. Most important clause is that on non-duplication. To German film companies goes the exclusive right to produce Wagnerian opera; to Viennese, the rights to lighter productions, non-Wagnerian, such as Richard Strauss, Mozart, Rossini...
...swine raisers of East Prussia," boomed Deputy Freybe, "I say, 'Don't raise so many hogs.' If you must raise hogs, raise thin ones, raise them for meat, not for fat. We must remember the younger generation in Germany. It is keen on sport and hygiene. It thinks of its waistline. It absolutely cannot be made to eat hog fat and lard...
...Oriental state is Communist. The focus of Communism is in European, not Asiatic Russia. Marx and Lenin, chief architects of Communism, were born respectively in Prussia and European Russia...