Word: reichstag
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...Reichstag last week Deputy Karl Freybe, pork-packer, member of the little Economic Party, gave Spartan advice to East Prussian pig raisers who have been bitterly complaining of low prices, overproduction and cut-throat Polish pig competition in the German market...
During these crucial moments last week, Vice-President Siegfried Vonkardorff rose before the Reichstag and sternly requested all members to cease sitting without their coats to avoid lowering the dignity of that body. Solemnly did the members debate whether a temperature of 88° justified their making themselves comfortable, decided in the negative...
...efficient Germany, on the contrary, each "surplus vote'' is totalled up to the credit of the party for which it is cast. Then if the German Socialist Party, for example, has several million such votes to its credit, the party chiefs are allowed to name and send to the Reichstag a number of deputies proportional to this surplus. Thus, in a German election, "every vote counts...
...Reichstag burst into one vast German guffaw; but Dr. Hugenberg, strong in his basic potency, stood his ground like a magnat, and when silence came again read his speech to the end. He announced that overnight the Nationalist Party had reversed itself, would stand with the Cabinet...
...Reichstag lobbies it was said that Dr. Hugenberg and the Big Business wing of his party had been forced to reverse overnight by the agrarian wing, made up of farmers and landed proprietors fanatically loyal to HINDENBURG. The victory of "Iron Cross" Brüning was thus purely a triumph for the President of the Republic...