Word: reichstager
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...taxation without representation!" was the battle cry of the American Revolution. Last week His Excellency General Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the Reich, imposed upon Germans by a stroke of his goose-quill taxes totaling $115,000,000 which had previously been rejected by the Reichstag. After signing this extraordinary decree at midnight, Old Paul went troubled to bed. In the grey Berlin dawn millions of papers were imprinted with the ominous words: VEILED DICTATORSHIP...
Sweltering Deputies of the Reichstag last fortnight persuaded Vice President von Kardorff to relax his iron rule against sitting in shirtsleeves for the first time. Journalistic pressure last week moved...
...Communist Deputy, Herr Maslowski, who started what has become a socialite fad of the moment by defiantly shedding his coat in the Reichstag a month ago, amid shouts of protest, cries of "Shame...
Last week triumphant Communist Maslowski addressed the Reichstag in a brilliant blue sport shirt, is rumored to have a screeching red shirt in reserve...
...acts of treason between Nov. 9, 1918 and Dec. 1, 1924 rejoiced exceedingly last week. The six-year period thus delimited was the era of attempted putsches to restore the Hohenzollerns, the period when "Separatists" in the Rhineland agitated to set up a Rhineland Republic. Last week the German Reichstag with a stately gesture wiped this huge, dirty slate clean, declared a general amnesty for the benefit of persons so fortunate as to have committed their political crimes or treasons between the dates specified...