Word: reichstager
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...chastened mood the Reichstag reconvened last week from a six weeks recess, found that President Paul von Hindenburg had just legalized by executive decree 26 drastic retrenchment bills prepared by Prime Minister Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning...
...other votes would have been credited to the party for which they were cast. After the election each German party totals up the "left over votes" it gets in this way, and for every 60,000 such votes the party is permitted to choose and to send to the Reichstag one Deputy. Thus no votes are wasted in Germany, millions in Great Britain...
...noticed last week that someone has stolen the German Constitution of 1849 out of the Library of the Reichstag -not a copy but the original document. "The theft seems to have been committed quite a long time ago," apologized a Reichstag librarian, "but as soon as it was discovered, today, the police were told at once...
...Reichstag opened last week there was bedlam within (see p. 21), riot without. Communists roared the Internationale among the trees and bushes of the Tiergarten,* were chased from cover by mounted police. Fascists came early, sat in squads upon all Tiergarten benches near the Reichstag, bawled "Hail Hitler!" and "Wake up Germany!" hour after hour, growing more and more hoarse. To keep order nearly all Berlin's police were concentrated around the Reichstag - with dire result...
...Prussian Diet (State Legislature) last week. Thus they expressed their wish that Dr. Otto Braun, famed Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, should dissolve the Diet, order an election. The Prussian Fascists knew they would make large electoral gains, because the German Fascists won so heavily in the recent Reichstag poll (TIME, Sept. 22). They called Socialist Braun "swine" and "coward" because he is not simple enough to play into their hands...