Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALPmen began to scrabble about for a candidate. Desperately they proposed Rex Tugwell, Adolf Berle, Wendell Willkie, Fiorello LaGuardia and Dorothy Thompson. None, of course, was "available." A.L.P. finally settled on moonfaced, bespectacled Dean Alfange, 44, lawyer, author and onetime unsuccessful Tammany candidate for Congress. Although his was the only name presented to the convention, politically unknown Dean Alfange said what pleased him most was that the convention was "free and un-bossed." He identified himself as a New Deal Democrat...
Herr Goebbels' thriller fulfills Adolf Hitler's recipe for Grade-A propaganda: it must be so exaggeratedly simple that the masses will get the point at once. Gone With the Wind is an exaggeratedly simple account of the brutality of American imperialism. A pack of Yankee cutthroats on a nameless West Indian island frame, cuckold and dishonor a simple, honest, hard-working South American doctor...
...Duce hung around for a while, finally returned to Rome. There, last week, the usual greetings arrived from Adolf Hitler: "On the occasion of your birthday . . . Duce." It did seem that Herr Hitler might quit reminding him of it. In Rome the subject was not mentioned...
Listen, Judge. In Chicago, a Texas badman, Taylor N. Whichard, told the judge that if all charges against him were dropped, he would personally rub out Adolf Hitler. The judge, unmoved, gave him nine years...
Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...