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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Importance of Being Willy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Chapter 2: The Dastardly Plot. On the night of November 8, at 9:21 p.m., just eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich, a bomb exploded, killing eight, injuring 62, just missing the little man who wasn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler. For America and the other neutrals, if they were not convinced by the Russo-German alliance last August or the joint Polish seizure of September, the Finnish invasion will remove any hesitation they had in placing Russia and Germany in the same category...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINLANDIA | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...political bigwig who is i) a shoemaker's son, 2) a baker's son, 3) a blacksmith's son, 4) a bastard's son. They got the first three in short order: Stalin, Daladier, Mussolini. For No. 4, Oscar Levant's candidate was Adolf Schickelgruber. A woman in the audience disagreed.* "Wasn't he, really?" queried Fadiman, glancing owlishly around. "Well," spake John Kieran, beating Fadiman to the evening's punch line, "he is, if he wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...right. Hitler's father was legitimized before Adolf was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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