Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muenster, Westphalia, he was educated at the Universities of Munich, Strassburg, Muenster, and Bonn, receiving a Doctor of Economics degree from Bonn in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he was on the Western Front as an officer in the German Army. As a member of the Centrist party, he was elected to the Reichstag for the first time in 1924, and in 1929 became head of his party in the Reichstag...
Harvard's Professor-designate Brüning today bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag...
Interpreting the revolt as a vote of noconfidence. Premier Casares Quiroga resigned. President Azaña chose a fellow-member of the Left Centre, President of the Cortes Diego Martinez-Barrio, who in turn resigned to make way for another Left Centrist José Giralt Pereira. distinguished scientist. Madrid University's Chancellor and old friend...
...President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could be no better than Zamora. Only five Centrist deputies voted for "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic...
...dictatorship and nationalization of land & banks. The Right parties, counter-united under Catholic Leader Jose Maria Gil Robles, offered "Anti-Revolution," meaning, to the women, suppression of divorce; to the churchmen, support of the Catholic Church in Spain; to the Monarchists, the Monarchy. Finally Premier Manuel Portela Valladares' Centrist Government offered "Neutrality," qualified by political alliance with the Right. In the campaign the Government reserved the radio entirely for itself. With only eight dead, 32 wounded, the election was called "the most peaceful in years." Results: At week's beginning, the Left seemed to have raised its Cortes...