Word: reichsgericht
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...Reichsgericht. Premier Braun was back in his office as the result of doings last week in Leipzig, aloof seat of the Reichsgericht or German Supreme Court. In its dim and stately chamber, Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke handed down what would have been a momentous decision if it had not been one of the most ambiguous verdicts ever given by a Supreme Court...
...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
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