Word: schreibers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chamber still decked in mourning, 120 West Berlin assemblymen met one day last week to elect a successor to the late great Ernst Reuter, mayor of West Berlin. Waiting in the anteroom behind a brace of glowing cigars were two rival candidates: Deputy Mayor Walther Schreiber, 69, a Christian Democrat, and Socialist Otto Suhr, 59, chairman of the assembly. The votes were cast and counted, and for the first time in three years, the "great coalition" that united Berlin behind Reuter's Socialists broke asunder. The right-wing parties (Christian Democrats and Free Democrats) split with their Socialist allies...
...balding, tired-looking lawyer who came close to defeating Reuter himself in the last mayoralty election (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Schreiber grew up on a farm in the Harz Mountains. He fought in the Kaiser's cavalry in World War I; the Nazis sacked him from his post as Prussian State Minister of Trade and Commerce; in 1945, Soviet Marshal Zhukov bounced him from his job for opposing the Communists' "land reform" program...
Last week an Air Force court-martial in Korea sentenced the officer of the guard, Lieut. George Schreiber, 25, to life imprisonment. At the same time, the life sentence of Airman Thomas L. Kinder, 21, the guard who fired the fatal shot, was reduced to two years. No one questioned the sentences, or the military's right to try Kinder and Schreiber. who are still in the Air Force. But the case of Bob Toth, a civilian, is a different matter...
...encouraging notes about France's discouraging situation is the fact that some Frenchmen themselves are getting worried about things. Thundered the new conservative weekly, L'Express, edited by able young Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber...
...asked Servan-Schreiber. "The most distressing thing is not to understand why. Historic decadence is not a satisfying explanation, and in any case it is inadmissible ..." France's day-to-day existence, he suggested, is determined "by lower echelons, public and private ... the assistant chiefs of bureau and the secretaries of corporations . . . These men are probably honest and competent, but not for directing the destinies of the country ... It is neither their role nor their mandate. The sum of all these specialized interests does not constitute a community of interests . . . One after the other, the problems that we have...