Word: weimar
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...Emergency laws need the approval of neither the Reichstag nor the Reichsrat (Federal Council of States). The right of popular referendum on them, expressed in the Weimar Constitution, is specifically set aside...
...Goethe's First Decade in Weimar," Professor Silz, Sever...
...Schlafwagen (sleeper) bound for Berlin. In the dead of night he exchanged telegrams with two most militant Fascists, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Party chieftain in Berlin, and mighty-midriffed Hermann Göring, Speaker of the Reichstag, who induced him to leave his train at dawn, meet them in Weimar. Apparently they told Leader Hitler, somewhat of a waverer despite his bombast, that the Fascist Party must stick by its announced resolve to fight any Cabinet not headed by Hitler. Soon Fascist headquarters officially announced "our Party declines any sort of toleration of the Schleicher Cabinet." The Socialist Party also...
...studios all over Europe, in Paris, Fontainebleau, Picardy; in Egmont, Holland (whence came many of his best known canvases); in Weimar; in Italy. Since he seldom opened his mail, never left forwarding addresses, friends never knew where to find him. His shirtfront became a flower bed for ribbons-officer of the Legion of Honor, knight of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, officer of the Order of the Red Eagle (Prussia), officer of the Grand Ducal Order of the White Falcon of Sacony. In 1914 Gari Melchers prudently removed himself to the land of his birth. His pictures hang...
...honors of the evening went neither to the Emperor or his satellites. Word had arrived that a great man from Germany was coming to do homage to the Emperor of the French. The sage of Weimar, who had sent Faust stalking through the halls of Europe, and through the imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...