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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thompsonites. With her background of eight years as a correspondent in Vienna and Berlin before the rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pressure Groups | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Every time Fiihrer Adolf Hitler gets ready to make a speech the world gets scared. Every time he gets through making a speech the world is relieved that he has not immediately plunged it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Reactions to Hitler | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

GREAT BRITAIN Parliament met last week for the first time since the Christmas recess. The first thing the House of Commons wanted to hear was what Neville Chamberlain had to say about what Adolf Hitler had said to the Reichstag the day before (TIME, Feb. 6). The Great Appeaser did his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Deeds, Not Words | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...faced little clubfoot who bosses the German press, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, once remarked that two newspapers are enough for Germany-Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter (National Observer) and Dr. Goebbels' Angriff (Attack). In such matters Dr. Goebbels is a man of his word. Since January 1933, more than 1,000 non-Nazi German newspapers have been closed or failed under Nazi pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paper Purge | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Most revealing index of the nervous condition of a nation lies in sales records of sleeping powders. Last fortnight an unnamed Berlin correspondent of the London Telegraph and Post showed that the fiery speeches of Adolf Hitler were giving Germans the jitters, keeping them awake all night. The rise in sales of German sleeping powders during the last two years, he wrote, has been "phenomenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugs and Politics | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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