Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Socialist Braun will be the next German Chancellor was the virtually unanimous forecast of correspondents last week, when 40,000,000 Germans trudged to the polls through a nationally pouring rain and elected to the Reichstag a potent phalanx of Socialist deputies, more than twice as numerous as the runner-up Nationalist cohorts...
...election returns not fully verified last week show that the numerical strengths of the various parties in the forthcoming Reichstag, will be as compared to the previous Reichstag: Socialists 152, previously 131; Catholic Centrists (the party of Chancellor Dr. Wilhelm Marx) 62, previously 68; Nationalists (once the party of Hindenburg) 72, previously 110; Communists 54, previously 45; People's (the party of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann) 44, previously 51; Democrats 25, previously 32, Economic Union 23, previously 21; Bavarian Peoples party 16, previously 19; Voelkische (the reactionary monarchist Ludendorffers) 12, previously 13; Independents 5, previously 3. Peasants...
...German State Railways officially announced, last week, for submission to the Reichstag a project to abolish 1st & 4th class railway cars. The residual 2nd & 3rd class cars will be redesignated "soft" & "hard," if the Reichstag approves, thus abolishing class distinctions which are felt to be inappropriate in the democratic German Republic...
...Berlin the speaker's rostrum of the Reichstag was surmounted with a wreath of laurel leaves, to honor Painter-Goldsmith-Etcher Albrecht Dürer. Upon the desk of the President of the Reichstag stood, for a day, the Christ-like portrait which Artist Dürer painted of himself...
Last week Deputies of the Reichstag...