Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage (in 1936) was $6.29; and one in every five was dependent on the Winter Relief Fund, which is made up of workers' "voluntary" contributions. Real achievements: Strength-Through-Joy cruises by which a workman could visit Madeira for $25 round trip, or spend a week in the Bavarian Alps for $11; vast expansion of theater, opera, concerts, adult education...
When 20-year-old Adam, immigrant Bavarian peddler, opened his "Palace of Trade" in Vincennes in 1842, his policies looked mighty suspicious to the 1,700 townspeople: no haggling, one price to all. But it worked. His seven sons, banding together as the Gimbel Brothers, mushroomed the business into a chain of nine great stores, whose sales in 1941 were probably about $115,000,000, profits (before taxes...
...Jews-"There . . . can be no other 'settlement' for the future than that the Jewish German is and always will be a German, just as the Bavarian German, or the Rhineland or the Pomeranian German...
...Germany the Bavarian Soviet toppled, while little girls of 12 solicited openly on the Alexanderplatz, and in the dead of nights, whose terror exceeded anything known in the U.S. since Indian days, good citizens heard the shuffle of marching feet and voices singing...
...Germany, however, frowns on undisciplined enjoyment, and for the last 18 months gaiety has been regulated almost out of existence. But last week came a sign that even the Germans must relax to shake off the jitters of war as reports arrived of ten days of hoopla in the Bavarian Alps...