Word: schmid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cologne friend, Banker Robert Pferdmenges, gently explained how in big business a corporation president, by becoming board chairman, sloughs off the daily burden while overseeing the continuity of policy. Adenauer himself badly wanted a strong presidential candidate to head off the "catastrophic" possibility that a Socialist (the popular Carlo Schmid) might win the office. And Adenauer was also swayed by fears that his allies might be preparing to undercut Germany's position in negotiations with Russia; he felt deep dismay over John Foster Dulles' illness and the new American faces he must deal with; he felt pain...
...respected German Socialist leaders, Carlo Schmid and Fritz Erler, returned from Moscow last week, having learned for all their "flexibility," that the Russians had their own definitions of "the possibilities of reducing tensions." Schmid and Erler talked for three hours with Khrushchev. Afterwards, Khrushchev indicated that Socialists might be easier to get along with than Konrad Adenauer. But Socialist hints that they would be willing to take West Germany out of NATO got no response from Khrushchev. Waving a stubby finger at the two Socialists, he said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification...
...have other effects too. It gave the Christian Democrats, who can now count only a scant six-vote majority in the July electoral-college balloting, a presidential nominee able and popular enough to match the opposition Social Democrats' popular and widely known candidate, Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid. It also appeased Ruhr industrialists, who, because industrial production tumbled 8% in January-the sharpest drop in seven years-and because 14 million tons of unsold coal are piled up around Rhineland pits, long for protectionism and cartels, and cry for the removal of the man to whom they...
...Skirt. In Rochester, a thief stole gasoline from Frank Schmid's car by siphoning it off through a disconnected hula hoop...
Brauer is only one of several Socialist leaders who are challenging the Ollenhauer bureaucracy, which had insisted on socializing industry, fighting conscription and cultivating neutrality. Most prominent at the moment is broad-beamed Carlo Schmid, 60, a respected intellectual and foreign-policy specialist who backed German rearmament when other parliamentary Socialists fought the whole idea, and last fortnight topped Ollenhauer in the voting for the Socialist parliamentary group's executive council...