Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Hairy Man, an austere Harvardman, and a cargo of vituperation came down hard and almost snapped the already strained relations between the U. S. and Germany. For the U. S. Government emerged from its diplomatic storm cellar and slapped down Adolf Hitler...
...diplomacy. Even from a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (who is not expected to be a diplomat) they came perilously close to being a deliberate insult. And there was even a suspicion that they might have been inspired by the White House. In effect, Mr. Ickes having boxed Adolf Hitler's ear, and Mr. Welles having slapped his nose, Mr. Pittman took a roundhouse swing...
...first time Adolf Hitler had been treated with the same crudeness he had often used to other nations. At least for the time being the result appeared salubrious...
...hrerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
...world war over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...