Brüning
Britishnoun
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By 1932, the austerity policies of the German chancellor Heinrich Brüning were discredited and Adolf Hitler was on course to replace him.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017
Brüning settled for another round of austerity, not realising that for voters there was a third choice: a party that insisted that national solutions were the answer to a broken international system.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017
In the hope that the creditor nations would respond by eventually canceling those reparations, Brüning slashed social spending and investment.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015
The German economy shrank 7.7 percent in 1931 and 7.5 percent in 1932 under the watch of Heinrich Brüning, known as the hunger chancellor, who enacted harsh austerity measures that deepened the depression.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2011
Disulpho-acids of beta-naphthol introduced by Meister, Lucius, and Brüning, leading to azo-dyes from aniline, toluidine, xylidine, and cumidine.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Meldola, Raphael
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