Word: reimann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bundestag. Instead, they won a smashing victory, and the right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...
Major General Lemuel Mathewson, U.S. commander in Berlin, fired off a protest to the Soviet authorities, citing the collusion by Communist police. In Bonn, all members of the Bundestag except the Communists and the presiding officers (who have to stay) walked out on a speech by Max Reimann, the Communist leader in West Germany. Radio station RIAS cut Reimann's speech off the air, substituted music; and another station that carried Reimann's remarks in full was snowed under by complaints. West Berlin officials began installing street barriers of their own along the sector line...
Professor Hobart A. Reimann of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College coined the name to cover a group of mysterious ailments which have been cropping up in medical records for almost 150 years. .Victims may get fever (up to 104°), abdominal pains, swollen joints, purple spots and patches, swelling or hives. More men than women are afflicted...
...hundreds of cases studied by Dr. Reimann, no guilty germ has been found. Allergies and hormone upsets have been accused, then cleared of blame. Dr. Reimann does not suggest that the psyche has anything to do with it, though heredity may. The disease often appears in infancy; in one family, 24 members of five generations have been affected. No treatment seems to check the disease. On the other hand, it is no killer: between bouts, patients are fit & well...
...Reimann does not pretend to know what causes periodic disease, but he believes it is a good thing to have the puzzling facts known: if periodic disease is recognized, victims may be spared useless operations (such as appendectomies) and tedious treatments to no purpose...