Word: reichstager
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...oldest Deputy opens each new Reichstag, and old people's tongues are tart. Last autumn the 6th Reichstag since the founding of the Republic was opened by drooling Frau Clara Zetkin, 75, "Grandmother of the German Revolution," who screamed Communist abuse of President von Hindenburg, demanded his impeachment (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the new (7th) Reichstag was opened in equally abusive fashion by grizzled, gimlet-eyed, grey-mustached General Karl Litzmann, 82, the Fascist Party's specially acquired official parliamentary oldster...
...usual the Fascist Deputies goose-stepped into the Reichstag, wearing brown uniforms with red swastika armbands - all except General Litzmann. Conspicuous in an ordinary business suit pinned with all his medals, Speaker Litzmann climbed the rostrum amid Communist boos & shouts of "Defeated General!", rapped sternly for order and proceeded to roast President von Hindenburg as only one old soldier can roast another...
...Disability, Demise or Resignation?" That Germany has not been driven to the last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...
...consent, that Leader Hitler had refused to let any Fascist enter a Cabinet until he, Hitler, should be Chancellor and that Herr Strasser, disgusted by this stand, had made his feelings known in the only way he could. Herr Feder and about 50 of the Party's 195 Reichstag Deputies were said to support Herr Strasser, arguing that it is madness to deny job-hungry Fascists government jobs...
...last ministry on this slate is wholly new, created by Chancellor von Schleicher especially to appease the Reichstag and the populace. Germany's 5,000,000 proletarian unemployed and the uncounted German farmers who need relief will be pleased-General von Schleicher hoped- to have for the first time a minister directly representing them in the Cabinet. Their minister, leather-lunged Dr. Günther Gereke, has been shouting up & down the land for years various proposals for ending unemployment which he calls collectively "The Gereke Plan." During the last Presidential campaign, when Old Paul made no platform speeches...