Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bits of modernity in the Museum, the murals in the foyer, stirred controversy during the thirties because of their unsubtle barbs in the direction of Adolf Hitler. Painted during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi Great Rehearsal, one shows a dwarf in military breeches whipping a group of nude workers. In the other, some soldiers with poison gas and flame throwers face others armed with but swords and shields in what seems an acute prognostication of the Blitzkrieg...
...that the Republicans will make McCarthyism an "increasingly significant issue" in the closing weeks of the campaign. He fears that, encouraged by the Senator's victory in Wisconsin, the Republicans will be tempted to use McCarthyism as another "Bloody Shirt of the Rebellion." He cited a "similar" attempt by Adolf Hitler, who conjured up threats of subversion in order to keep himself in power...
Cashmere's nomination immediately ran into trouble, i.e., that peculiar New York political institution, the Liberal Party. Core of the Liberal Party is Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but on national and statewide issues usually lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made...
...Stalin said to the rapt delegates to the 18th Congress of the Russian All Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks): "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world, of spheres of influence and colonies, by military action." Five months later, Stalin concluded his infamous alliance with Adolf Hitler. One week after that, "military action" began...
...Adolf Hitler, who promised to put a "people's flivver" (Volkswagen) in every German garage, collected $112 million in public subscriptions to build a big auto factory in Wolfsburg. About all it ever turned out was jeeps, and the only ride most Germans got for their money was a one-way trip to the battlefront. During World War II, Allied airmen smashed the plant...