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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comrade Stalin sits quietly waiting for his inning in history, content that Adolf and Germany and Fascism were Waterlooed in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour, but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. He had just been called by Ambassador Tony Biddle in Warsaw. Mr. Bullitt told Mr. Roosevelt that World War II had begun. Adolf Hitler's bombing planes were dropping death all over Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...person in the room doubted Franklin Roosevelt's sincerity, but neither was anyone in the slightest doubt as to where lay the sympathy, the potent human partisanship, of this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps mad. His every word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...replaced all German-born hands on its tankers with U. S. seamen. Lieut,. Commander Allan Wurtele, U. S. N., retired, announced on his New Roads. La., sugar plantation that he was ready to contribute $5,000 to a fund to buy Danzig, the Polish Corridor, and give them to Adolf Hitler. "This offer may sound screwball," said Commander Wurtele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering and subjugation of Poland. Ordering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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