Word: westphalia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They chose to strike against him not in the federal Bundestag, where they are outnumbered 251 to 48 by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Instead they organized a revolt in the provincial legislature of North Rhine-Westphalia, which contains the rich Ruhr. Free Democrats made a deal with the opposition Social Democrats, with whom they otherwise had nothing in common, to overthrow able Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, the Minister Pres ident (governor) of North Rhine-Westphalia. They had nothing but admiration for Arnold and said so; they were simply out to get at Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. By a vote...
...price for German unity." Dehler was cheered repeatedly as he accused Adenauer of lacking determination to achieve unification, but Adenauer exacted quick revenge for his defeat of last week at the hands of the Free Democrats. The Free Democrats earlier had helped the Socialists wrest North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's richest state, from Adenauer's control...
...they took instruction from an incisive young man, then hurried off in automobiles to nine cities of West Germany's industrial Ruhr. At the stroke of 8 next morning, the nine men led small groups of assistants into nine regional offices and the headquarters of the big Northrhine-Westphalia Building Workers' Union, seized the offices and the files...
...Schaffer would probably be only an interim leader until some younger, stronger man could emerge. For the long pull, the betting now favors Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, 51, or Trade Unionist Karl Arnold, 54, Minister President of West Germany's biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia...
...church. But since World War II, German and Swedish technicians, students, servants and refugees from Red regimes have built the community up again. A year ago the Dublin Lutherans applied for a pastor of their own. To Hans Mittorp, 45, it meant leaving his precious parish at Paderborn, Westphalia and going to a land whose language he hardly knew. When he finally decided, he says, "I took it joyously...