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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nazis preach Nordic racial superiority, they have little hesitation in stringing along with a Mediterranean people like the Italians or an Oriental one like the Japanese. Moreover, they strenuously try to cultivate friendship with the Arabs, who are not only non-Aryan but Semitic. Last week Adolf Hitler received at his Berchtesgaden retreat a tall, straight, bearded Arab dressed in a beautifully embroidered flowing robe. His name was Khalid al Hud, and his position is that of counselor and emissary of Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, "Guardian of the Holy Places," the most potent and most independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Semitic Friends | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

After twelve years of bickering, with or without Adolf Hitler's consent, Germany will at last have to pay about 40? on the dollar. In custody of the U. S. Treasury is some $20,000,000, including property seized from German nationals during the War and income from bonds which Ger many posted as collateral, later defaulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Black Fritz | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Nazis held a memorial service in Kladno for Sergeant Kniest, before giving him a martyr's funeral this week in Leipzig, his home city. Adolf Hitler sent a wreath. Kladno was first given 24 hours, later 48, to produce the killer or else suffer "further measures." The Czech Unity Party, only Czech political organization still existent in Bohemia and Moravia, declared such "acts of force are a crime against the entire Czech people," called upon Czechs to cooperate in apprehending the slayer. The Czechs wanted it understood that murder was not in their plans. While Kladno wondered what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime and Crime | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Chief Monopoly Investigator Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., hastening to deny that it had coached its witnesses to use Mr. Chase's words, referred to the record to show that Monopoly Witnesses Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. and John W. Barriger III had violated Mr. Chase's advice right and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Propaganda Glossary | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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