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As Finance Minister in the two Cabinets preceding his own, Dr. Stresemann's (TlME Oct. 15. 1923) and Dr. Marx's (TlME Dec. 10, 1923), his regime covered the inception of the Dawes Plan (TlME, June 16,1924), the suppression of the Rhineland Separatist revolt (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923), the squelching of Ludendorff's "Beer Hall Revolt" (TlME, Nov.19, 1923) and h i s acquittal of a charge of treason (TlME, April 7, 1924), the death of Hugo Stinnes which toppled his industrial Tsardom (TlME, April 21, 1924), the election of the present Reichstag — the Communists being repudiated at the polls (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924).