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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...greased Afghan palms so well that that mountainous kingdom came to lean toward the Soviet Union more than toward Great Britain. Later he laid the foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years old in his Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...slip by without reminding the world that there were other aggressions and other aggressors. M. Paul-Boncour said that France and Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded all previous limits of cynicism and hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Count Ciano was in frequent, close and friendly personal contact last spring and summer with Adolf Hitler and his diplomatic generalissimo, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. His speech last week explained why Italy, after signing a "pact of steel" with Nazi Germany in the spring, chose a state of "nonbelligerency" in the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...MEIN KAMPF-Adolf Hitler-Reynal & Hitchcock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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