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  • The Bavarian "Volkspartei" (People's Party) grew with his cooperation in a few years from a modest group to a majority in the House (1869).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • But among the Christdemokraten (another big "Volkspartei" and part of the government as well) the aptitude for withdrawals seems even less.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • The right-wing ‘anti-jewish-anti-bolshewic’ Bayerische Volkspartei (BVP) received 35%, the bourgeois DDP 14%, the Bauernpartei 11%, the National Liberals (NLP and BMP) 5.8%, the MSPD 33% and the USPD 2.5%.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009

  • While the world watches a direct assault on religious freedom in Switzerland, prompted by the neo-fascist Schweizerische Volkspartei, the Speech Warriors ™ are celebrating.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • (Freisinnige and Volkspartei) and now united under the name Progressive

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Nevertheless, they led to the formation of a Catholic parliamentary party, the People's Party (Volkspartei), which made the revision of the ecclesiastico-political laws the chief measure of their programme.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • His Volkspartei had seen the opportunity to give a death-blow at last to the eight-hour day, a piece of revolutionary legislation which business interests still condemned with peculiar hatred: and the new proposal was the very negation of Social Democracy.

    Mises Dailies 2009

  • Defending both his position and the position of his political party, the Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP), or Austrian People's Party, Pröll maintained that the introduction of new taxes would merely emit the wrong signal to the nation, at a time when the 2009 tax reforms have only just begun to reduce the burden on taxpayers, and when a faint glimmer of hope of an economic recovery has only just begun to emerge.

    Tax-News.Com Daily Headlines 2009

  • Defending both his position and the position of his political party, the Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP), or Austrian People's Party, Pröll maintained that the introduction of new taxes would merely emit the wrong signal to the nation, at a time when the 2009 tax reforms have only just begun to reduce the burden on taxpayers, and when a faint glimmer of hope of an economic recovery has only just begun to emerge.

    Tax-News.Com Daily Headlines 2009

  • It was replaced by that of Dr Gustav Stresemann, the leader of the constitutional, anti-socialist, businessman's Volkspartei.

    Mises Dailies 2009

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