Word: thalmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punctured Napoleon? Even German Reds are prudent. Last month, in the first presidential election (won by nobody since nobody obtained an absolute majority), 4,982,939 Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...
Amid these difficulties, candidate-picking began. First in the field against Old Paul was Communist Ernst Thalmann, whom the late New York World used to call "Germany's Red Napoleon." His worst enemies, the German Fascists, conceded last week that leather-lunged Comrade Thalmann, once a Hamburg stevedore and later a sailor, would get at least 6,000,000 votes. Some 38,000,000 ballots will be cast...
...against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2¼. Last week the j railroad announced it was unable to cope j with the situation, asked its bankers, DilIon, Read & Co. and Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., to help work out another new plan, i avert receivership. Chief immediate problem is the maturity of some $11,000,000 ; bonds during 1931. Seaboard Air Line is grouped with Wabash in the I. C. C. plan, but Wabash has shown no desire to acquire the unfortunate road. Southerners are familiar with Seaboard...
Jubilant were Berlin's ultra Reds, led by blond, broad-shouldered, blustering Ernst Thalmann. Rolling up 408,642 votes, his Communist party easily topped Berlin's poll. The Socialists were No. 2, with 346,014 ballots?thus proving Berlin the world's most radical capital of a Great Power next to Moscow. National returns showed a Communist gain throughout Germany of 40%, the party jumping from 54 Reichstag seats...