Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Reply. One ambitious project has been brewing since 1933, when Adolf Hitler burned the books. "The best reply," said Neuman, "would be to restore some of the great works that have been virtually lost to the Jewish people." He gathered a team of 20 scholars, got a grant from Manhattan's Littauer Foundation, and began translating into English the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha, a series of ancient noncanonical writings closely connected to the Bible...
Died. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, 67, Adolf Hitler's last Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Lenzkirch, Germany. Distantly related by marriage to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, chunky, affable, Roman Catholic Dieckhoff was required, as his first public act in the U.S., to chide Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago for referring to Hitler as "that Austrian paper hanger." After 18 months in the U.S., Diplomat Dieckhoff was recalled by the Führer in 1938 and never came back...
Jawohl. Destiny perched on Remer's shoulders. Instead of arresting Goebbels, he went to see him, unsure what to do. Goebbels persuasively cooed that Hitler was still alive, reached for the phone, handed it to Remer. "Do you recognize my voice?" asked Adolf Hitler. "Jawohl, mein Führer," quavered Remer-and his mind was made up. Hitler empowered Remer to act in his behalf to crush the plot and supersede all officers. By evening, the Nazis again gripped Berlin...
...pageant. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his wife arrived in President Truman's private plane, the Independence. At 3 that same afternoon, the Queen's husband Philip went to London Airport to meet his aunt, the Queen of Sweden, and her royal husband Gustaf Adolf. Exiled Prince Paul of Yugoslavia came, and was whisked off by his sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent-just in time to avoid meeting Yugoslavia's Communist President Ribar. Francisco Franco's Foreign Minister got in from Lisbon just before the Pretender to the Spanish throne. The King...
...bill calling for a complete congressional investigation of sports, college and professional, has been temporarily withdrawn from the House Rules Committee. Representative Adolf Sabath (D-III.) delayed the vote after one member stated that the job was meant for local action and another member asserted that his constituents weren't interested...