Word: thalmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected as Delegates last week were several dead Soviet heroes, notably Nikolai Lenin. Also elected a Delegate was Comrade Ernst Thalmann, onetime Communist candidate for President of the German Republic, who now sits in a Nazi jail. Black Delegate Robinson will have about as much to do with shaping the policy of the Moscow Soviet as jailed Delegate Thalmann, but his election last week was elegant propaganda among U. S. Negroes...
...more sensible move was to rush correspondents to the city prison where Police Chief Rudolph Diehls showed them various Communist leaders that had been reported beaten to death, executed or exiled at different times in the past week. In the first cell sat Ernst Thalmann, Communist candidate for President in last year's election (TIME, April 18, 1932). Like a guide, in the zoo the Police Chief orated...
...will observe that Thalmann looks physically fit. That he is not spiritually comfortable need not surprise you. . . . He further complains that he does not like the reading matter supplied...
...Herr Thalmann smiled and held up a copy of Jolly Tales from Swabia...
...every 60,000 votes cast he was still 53 seats short of a working majority. The five principal German parties emerged last week with the following seats as compared with the last Reichstag election (September 1930): 1932 1930 National Socialists (Hitler) 230 107 Socialists 133 143 Communists (Ernst Thalmann) 89 77 1932 1930 Centrists & Bavarian People's Party (Bruningj 96 87 Nationalists (Alfred Hugen-berg...