Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler exploded indignantly when Carl von Ossietzky, famed German pacifist, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while still a prisoner of the Third Reich (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). The decision of the awarders was reviled as "an insult to the German people." Nazis were forbidden thereafter to accept a Nobel Prize, were told that in future the Government would award similar prizes for Germans only...
...however, backed the defendant: two stated emphatically that the speech had been an anti-Christian attack; one produced painstaking notes that he had taken down at the time. Dr. Dibelius won another point by revealing that he had sent a copy of the accusing letter, before its publication, to Adolf Hitler and other Cabinet members, had received no replies forbidding or otherwise. For eight hours the debate surged back & forth. Finally, the court, hinting that Dr. Dibelius had come "pretty near the truth," acquitted...
...Busily tugging the teats of some of her husband's cows last week was Mrs. Carla de Vries, the woman who kissed Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games last year (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936, et seq.). George de Vries' 1,000-cow Vitamin D Dairy in Norwalk near Los Angeles was strike-bound by C. I. O.'s Dairy Workers' Union. Plodding up & down the picket line led by a striking herdsman was a placid Jersey cow bearing the placard: I WON'T BE MILKED BY A SCAB...
...this Japanese pronouncement connoisseurs observed the authentic Adolf Hitler touch, chalked it up to the German-Japanese Treaty signed last year for co-operation against Communism...
...Died. Adolf Edward Wuppermann, 65, president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (Angostura Bitters), brother of Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Angostura Bitters is brewed according to a secret formula known only to three descendants of Inventor Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a retired Army surgeon who lived in Venezuela. Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. was started in 1879 by Adolf Wuppermann's father to take over the U. S. Angostura agency. When George Wuppermann died in 1915, the presidency passed to his able widow who ran the company until she died last September...