Word: reichstager
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...there anybody older than I in this house?" suddenly shrilled 82-year-old Deputy Karl Herold above the tumult, "I was born in 1848! Anybody older than I? Anybody?" "Nein!" rumbled the Reichstag with one mighty voice, and, as custom decrees, the oldest Deputy took the chair prior to election of a regular President, began quaveringly to call the roll...
...women's names the Brown Shirts crowed. "Kikeriki! Kikeriki! Kikeriki!" -German equivalent to Cockadoodle-doo! (Fascists both German and Italian, hold that womgn are respectworthy as hens, jeerworthy when by entering politics they try t0 be roosters.) On tlie first day of the Reichstag session absolutely nothing was done except to call and jeer the roll...
...Treaty and the way the victors have administered it, he said, "incenses our people, and especially our Youth!" "The maintenance of Germany's armed forces," he added, "is the Reichstag's most important task. . . . Germany must recover her freedom!" [Widespread cheering, fierce Fascist cries of "Curtius must be imprisoned in a fortress!"-] Battle of Ballots. Result of the Chancellor's "fighting speech" was to consolidate and fire with new loyalty the Centrist-Socialist parties group which he leads -notwithstanding that the speech contained a qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along...
Midnight had struck. In the small hours the Chancellor tempted Fate, moved for a vote of confidence on adjournment. Yells, pounding on desk tops, wild minutes when every party in the Reichstag seemed to be bellowing at every other party: "Swine! . . . Grafters! . . . Liars! . . . Traitors...
...triumphal majority of 82! Once again, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning was virtual Dictator of Germany, able to put through his policy of drastic fiscal retrenchment under a series of decrees signed by his patron, the man who made him, Old Paul von Hindenburg-until the Reichstag meets again...