Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Gurtler, Sudeten-born Canadian citizen and, during World War I, immediate superior (sergeant) of a wispy corporal named Adolf Hitler; as a Canadian private...
...years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite brownshirts' warnings. When police stopped him one day at the gates of University of Berlin, he barked: "I'm going in, and what are you going to do about it?" They were...
Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time...
...gains, most papers fell back on vague rumors of food riots in remote Reich cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression...
...press was unanimous in its editorial endorsement of the President's address to the nation (TIME, Sept. 11) on neutrality. But there was considerable uncertainty about what neutrality was. Wrote the Atlanta Journal: "Adolf Hitler has brought Europe to this disaster. But we can also see that America now can best serve her own interests ... by keeping...