Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most complicated problem started in 1933, when Germany began to default on interest payments on state, municipal and corporate bonds. To give her a breather, President Hoover arranged a moratorium on all payments in 1931. Shortly after, Adolf Hitler repudiated the whole debt; he charged that it was caused by reparations and was one of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty.* As the market value of German bonds tumbled, Hitler's agents quietly bought up blocks of them at fractions of their par value, stored them away in Berlin. When World War II broke, the U.S. suspended trading...
Watching a weapons demonstration at Kummersdorf one day in 1933. Chancellor Adolf Hitler exclaimed with delight: "That's what I need! That's what I want to have!" The man who was giving him what he wanted was a stocky Pomeranian lieutenant colonel named Heinz Guderian, showing off his new Panzers and motorized troops. He had developed them in the face of opposition from most of the Wehrmacht generals and he had brought them a long way from the days when schoolboys used to slit his canvas dummy tanks for a look inside. He and his tanks were...
...surrealistic," says Dali. One of his paintings, he recalls, showed Lenin with a buttock three meters long, propped up by a crutch. Dali had hoped to shock and impress his fellow surrealists, but they were bored. Dali then turned his artistic attention to Adolf Hitler...
Like Old Times. To the outside world, the campaign was uncomfortably reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's home-front campaign against the Poles in the days before his Wehrmacht started World War II and as venomous as anything Soviet Russia hurled at Nazi Germany during the war. It was the kind of technique a dictatorship must use to put an oppressed population in a mood to fight a war. Yet neither Kennan nor the Russian Desk analysts in the State Department are ready to push their conclusions that far. For one thing, they doubt that 72-year-old Joseph Stalin...
...Died. Adolf Busch, 60, German-born violinist, founder (in 1919) of the Busch String Quartet and (in 1935) of the Busch Chamber Music Players; of a heart attack; in Guilford...