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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler was practically hammering on the Capitol's dome when Franklin Roosevelt closed with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln: "This generation will 'nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. . . . The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dictators Challenged | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Catholics by naming Frank Murphy Attorney General. He succeeded in paying sufficient respect to the West by asking Nebraska's George W. Norris who should get the Supreme Court vacancy. Senator Norris said Frankfurter. So Mr. Frankfurter's strongest supporter, Franklin Roosevelt, had his own way and Adolf Hitler was again offered a subtle rebuke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: A Place for Poppa | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Thus began a case unequaled in the Reich since the advent of Adolf Hitler. Before its end, expected next week, no less than 122 defendants will have been heard and sentenced. At least 17 of them, including the three principals heard last week, are expected to receive death by the guillotine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Underground Outcroppings | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...also Mussolini's official biographer and for many years his closest feminine confidante-though by no means the only one. Her influence waned when her old friend decided to pal around with Jew-tormenting Adolf Hitler, whom she detests. Now all her Government sinecures have been withdrawn, but last week she insisted to International News Service: "I have not been exiled. . . . Please make it clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Purged Ghost | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...teachers' meeting in Cleveland, Professor Max D. Steer of Purdue University produced graphs of Adolf Hitler's clod-compelling voice. The wave frequency of the Führer's frenetic shouts in a typical sentence: 228 vibrations a second-eight more, according to one authority, than the average person's in anger. Said Professor Steer: "It is this high pitch and its accompanying emotion that puts the German people in a passive state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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