Word: prussianize
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...Hitler nor Hindenburg knew what the other was going to say. They quarreled on their feet for 15 minutes. Handsome Adolf cheekily demanded that he be made Chancellor "with precisely the same power that Mussolini exercised after the march on Rome!" Old Paul replied in the tone of a Prussian school-teacher lecturing an urchin. He is said to have actually used the words, "If you don't behave, I'll rap your fingers!" Last week Germany's master intrigants took care that when President von Hindenburg inevitably summoned Adolf Hitler (as the leader of Germany's largest party...
German cartoons covering Dr. Bracht's efforts to force Prussian ladies to "decently cover" their backs reached the U. S. last week. "It is hereby decided." decreed Dr. Bracht, "that the dorsal opening in feminine costumes shall not be cut so low as to be excessive." At first Dr. Bracht was understood to mean that evening gowns could be cut only a trifle less than shoulder high. In desperation Berlin and other Prussian shopkeepers waited upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns...
Thus Chancellor von Papen hog-tied the Prussian Free State to the German Federal Government but left bald Dr. Braun loose as Premier of Prussia...
...hand Chancellor von Papen's ousting of the Prussian Cabinet under a decree of President von Hindenburg is annulled and Premier Braun & Ministers are empowered to represent the Government of Prussia. On the other hand the chancellor's appointment under the same Presidential decree of Dr. Franz Bracht as Acting Federal Commissioner to govern the State of Prussia is upheld. In effect the Supreme Court decision recognizes simultaneously two conflicting authorities in Prussia...
Next day Chancellor von Papen tried to absorb the Prussian Cabinet into his Federal Cabinet. He created a Federal Ministry called the "Ministry of Interior of Prussia," and gave it to Dr. Bracht, who has been ruling Prussia as Acting Federal Commissioner. A Dr. Johann Popitz was popped into the State and Federal Cabinets as "Minister of Finance of Prussia." Finally the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Baron Magnus von Braun, added to his titles "Minister of Agriculture of Prussia...