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Nevertheless bald and owlish Dr. Otto Braun, the Socialist Leader who has ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster...
...Braun, shrewd, had expected some such close shave as this. Therefore, just before the election, he persuaded the old Prussian Diet to pass a bill having the effect that Dr. Braun can only be ousted as Premier if his opponent can muster a majority. Up to the time this measure passed a plurality in the Diet had always sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention...
...three" bridge tournament has also been suggested by Princeton in a letter to the Yale News. If Yale is able to muster a team, the secretary of the Princeton Bridge Club proposed a triangular match for the middle...
...Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition to the 2¼% Sales Tax on manufactures in the budget-balancing revenue bill. Together they were able to muster a majority of the House in a successful revolt against the combined authority of both Democratic and Republican leaders...
...great achievement!" exclaimed William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. Two decades ago industrialists combatting Labor's advance had a large section of public opinion on their side. Last week, despite vigorous lobbying, the League for Industrial Rights could muster to its support only a handful of Republican Representatives from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts who solemnly warned that Congress was "making a long march toward Moscow...