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...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...
...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...
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...