Word: reichstager
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...beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...
...many weeks past small bombs have been bursting under assorted public buildings in Schleswig-Holstein and North Prussia. Three weeks ago another bomb, the eleventh in the series, burst noisily in the cellar of the German Reichstag at 4 a. m.. breaking many windows. Spurred by offers of a $15,000 reward, German police concentrated on the bombings...
...only accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
While lightning struck the Prussian Diet, man-made thunder roared and echoed in the German Reichstag across the way. Most of the thunder came from bulky, rumbling Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Germany's quick-brained, bullet-headed Foreign Minister. Almost completely recovered from a long illness (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.), he had returned from pruning his prize roses to defend in his own fashion the Young Plan settlement of German Reparations. The Nationalists were, charging that the Plan will make Germany a "colony" of England and France...
...Doorn to re-enter Germany. The means by which Wilhelm's exile has been maintained is the famed "Kaiser Clause" in the Law for the Defense of the Republic, which expires July 21, making residence in Germany of the onetime ruler dependent on the will of the Reichstag. Since the bill involves a change in the German Constitution, a two-thirds majority is always necessary to renew it. Bickering between Communists and Nationalists last week brought a final vote of 268 in favor of the law to 166 against, enought to defeat it. The Reichstag is almost sure...