Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calm yourselves, gentlemen," said the spokesman of the Reichstag Decoration Committee, "President Ebert's bust was merely put there to see how it looks. Moltke's will be back soon. So will Bismarck...
...amazed Reichstager groaned as he beheld, in the place of a bust of Field Marshal Moltke, the victor of Sadowa and Sedan,* a bust of Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic. Pale with rage and horror, he rushed through the Reichstag like one possessed, telling his friends of the sacrilege he had seen. His friends rushed off to verify the tale and found to their horror that not only had Moltke's bust vanished, but also that of Bismarck. Der Teufel! This was too much. In a body, they stormed the Reichstag's Decoration Committee, demanding...
...doubtful beginning was made by a Reichstag committee which refused to sanction an increase in beer and tobacco taxes...
Next day, business was completely held up for a whole afternoon and part of an evening by battalions of irate men and women, armed with walking-sticks and umbrellas, who beseiged the Reichstag building. Nationalist Deputies had promised in the last election to revalorize their worthless bonds, but nothing had been done...
...Look at those fat chaps gobbling and guzzling instead of getting us our savings back," screamed an irate female as she led her followers into the Reichstag restaurant. "Where is Count Westarp?" roared a voice. "We want Admiral Tirpitz," raved the crowd in unison. Not finding them, several women did the next best thing and roundly told a few handy Deputies exactly what they thought of them in the choicest German phrases...