Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Adolf Lohse, 65, German financial wizard and longtime (1945 until retirement in October) top executive of the Siemens Group, maker of all things electric; of a heart attack; in Neugrünwald, Germany. Senior member of the group's managing troika, Lohse masterminded Siemens' recovery from wartime ruin to second biggest in Germany (after Volkswagen), ranging the world's markets with everything from appliances to computers...
...presidency." "We favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
...well-known supporting actor in Austria and Germany in the 1930s, Donath was active in the anti-Nazi underground before fleeing to Hollywood in 1940. His thick accent made him a natural cinema Nazi, including der Führer himself in 1943's The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, but his talent soon found other roles-most notably Al Jolson's cantor-father...
...Obstacle. The cold war, says Halle, was a sharp spasm in the world balance of power, caused by Russia's overexpansion into Europe at the end of World War II. Just as Napoleon's France and the Germanys of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler had upset the power balances of the past, Stalin's push into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance...
Like his idol Adolf Schicklgruber, he was an unsuccessful painter. He went bust in the advertising business and broke as a traveling salesman, and was a dropout as publisher of a woman's magazine. Both his marriages failed...