Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader who wins wide personal applause even in a losing fight; a Georgian with the best political tradition of his State in his blood whose legislative enterprise and- parliamentary knowledge fully qualify him for promotion to the Senate. His term expires March 3,1933.-ED. Satevepost's von Schleicher...
...House, President von Hindenburg's comfortable, unpretentious summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia a solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
Test. The states of Bavaria and Baden and the ousted Cabinet of Prussia all introduced suits in the German Supreme Court at Leipzig last week challenging the legality of the Schleicher von Papen putsch under the German Constitution. Embarrassed judges pondered over the week-end and then, to the surprise of few, decided in favor of the Cabinet. Even so, Chancellor von Papen was not quite sure enough of himself to offend the southern provinces unnecessarily. With Minister of the Interior von Gayl he hurried to Stuttgart, assured the Premiers of Bavaria and Baden that he had no intention...
...elation reflected in Hitlerite circles yesterday with von Papen's coup, today turned to gloom with the realization that they are unlikely to replace von Papen and General von Schleicher in power after the July 31 elections. . . . One of Hitler's lieutenants told me: 'Von Papen is picking all the plums and reaping all the glory that in reality belong...
...yellow, smiling Kurt von Schleicher whose private passions are for French red wine and smoking-car stories, emerged more clearly as the real man at Germany's helm. By last week's decree he was vested with all executive power. Many newspapers wagered that fortnight hence he will be Chancellor of Germany...