Word: reichstagers
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...these interests combined to make Herr Hugo, ordinary member of the Reichstag, a most extraordinary and sinister figure in politics. It has been sad that German Governments heed his command or fail; that, when angry, the thunder of his voice and the lightning of his eyes spread terror into the European industrial world...
...Coffin, wife of the U. S. Consul General at Berlin, Miss Goldsmith, Assistant U. S. Trade Commissioner to Germany, Mrs. Conger, wife of the Berlin correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, were traveling in a Cologne-Berlin train. Into their compartment jumped Herr Kurt Korthaus, a member of the Reichstag. He objected to the number of bags on the rack. He told the ladies to remove them. They said they were too heavy, suggested that he call the conductor to remove them or do it himself...
...answer to 26 motions to revoke or modify the Government fiscal reforms, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx again told the Reichstag that it would be dissolved if it interfered with the Government's power now being exercised under a constitutional amendment. Speaking in the low, slow, even tones for which he is noted, the Chancellor said the Government had saved the nation from the horrors which further depreciation of the mark would have brought. He warned the Reichstag that tampering with the Government's decrees would undo the good work and start Germany off in a mad career down...
...Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, in a speech to the Reichstag, sounded a new tune on an old trumpet by remarking that "the quickest solution of the reparations problem is the solution that suits us best...
Herr Gustav Rösiche, President of the National Agrarian League and a leading reactionary member of the Reichstag, went on a visit to the ex-Crown Prince at Oels. He was to have delivered a report on German agrarian sentiment to His (ex) Royal Highness, but he was rendered unconscious by an apoplectic stroke from which he died...