Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plot That Failed. Out of favor with President Hindenburg, Hans von Seeckt finally gave way, in 1926, to another general, sly Kurt von Schleicher. Under Schleicher, the army was not above, but in, politics. Vain, unscrupulous, he schemed incessantly behind the republic's back. Worst of all, he let Hitler's private army of brown shirts grow to a scrap-happy, unmanageable...
...Crimson player Johnny Rauh will face Barry Schleicher, the same Jeff that trimmed him 6-2, 6-2, last year. Schleicher turned in Amherst's only singles victory at Yale, topping the Eli's Al Englander in three sets...
...doubles AmHerst should provide the closest competition. Both their top two doubles combinations of Dave Mesker and John Hicks and Pete Sherwood and Schleicher beat the Elis' top teams...
...months later, determined to give his wife a divorce. But first, said the lawyers, he must be officially brought to life again. They dug up old records. They pored over the past. What was this? An unserved sentence for pants-stealing? A Hamburg court investigated, and sentenced Schleicher to five months' imprisonment for his forgotten crime. Schleicher appealed. A higher court cut the sentence to one month. Schleicher threw himself into a Hamburg pond, determined to end it all. Even at this he failed. A passing couple saw him and dragged him out of the water...
Last week the Hamburg city council took pity on Private Schleicher, and passed a special legislative act granting him full pardon for everything. But bitterness had entered the sack's sad soul. "I'm going to spend my life," he swore, "fighting the stupid red tape which is entangling every German...