Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund in 1936, resumed functioning under the leadership of a sleek, pompous, garrulous ex-chemist named Fritz Kuhn whose offices in Manhattan are decorated by portraits of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler...
...much the innocent modern equivalent of an old-fashioned Turnverein is highly debatable, even among Bund members. Major operations of the Bund are week-end outings, where members in grey uniforms with Swastika brassards are drilled in German military tactics, sing German songs, listen to speeches in favor of Adolf Hitler. Dues of $9 a year partly go to buy camping sites, of which the Bund has 27 in as many cities. They also pay the salaries of Führer Kuhn and the district leaders whom he appoints. Major Bund centres are New York, Milwaukee and Los Angeles. Separate...
Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the White House, Germans have been extremely watchful of his attitude toward Adolf Hitler's Government, have rated the President discreetly but definitely anti-Nazi. Adolf Hitler was never more vehemently sincere than when he welcomed to Berlin last week the new U. S. Ambassador, Career Diplomat Hugh R. Wilson, with what the Führer called "vivid satisfaction...
...fortnight, but the Austrian simultaneously forced the Fiihrer to agree to order German stations to broadcast Schuschnigg's speech last week. The result was that German radio listeners heard the least Nazi political speech broadcast by the big German stations since 1933. Zealous Nazis were wild with rage. Adolf Hitler himself was late for a public appointment because he had lingered by his radio set listening to Kurt von Schuschnigg. Next day scores of congratulatory messages signed by Germans (many of them round robins) reached Orator Schuschnigg from Germany...
When he hit on his bathroom solution of Fermat's equation, Krieger at once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...