Word: amann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitler's press boss was Max Amann, a stupid, brawling dwarf bullock who had been Corporal Hitler's wartime company sergeant. Amann had assembled a press empire of 59 dailies even before the party took power. For the sake of Nazi recognition, scores of nonparty papers agreed to print Nazi propaganda free and to take no ads from Jews. By way of disaster insurance, dozens of German advertisers cynically bought space in official Nazi organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler...
Once Hitler became Chancellor, Presseleiter Amann peeled off his gloves. In 1933, the entire Social Democratic and Communist press, totaling some 150 papers hostile to Hitler, vanished without trace. That same year, the party passed a law decreeing that editors must "regulate their work in accordance with National Socialism as a philosophy of life." The Amann ordinances, passed two years later, required publishers to trace their own and their wives' racial "purity" back through four generations. Amann outlawed publications that appealed to "confessional groups"-an assault on Germany's Catholic press...
Dupe Sheets. Though Amann's measures caused nearly 1,500 newspaper casualties, the German press went docilely to its fate...
...various souls have tried to make honest men of all barkeepers. It has been the law in Illinois since 1949 that no whisky, gin or rum may be served in less than a one-ounce container. But most drinkers have only their own instinct to provide protection. Says Joseph Amann, a Chicago bar-equipment dealer for the past 38 years: "A man has a built-in measure in his mouth. If a drink doesn't burn as much as it did before, he knows he's getting gypped...