Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitler-"What's most important is your first contact with the old man. . . . You begin by awaiting him at the end of your famous office in the Palazzo Venezia. You let him walk 100 meters on a floor more polished than ever. It would be best if he fell down and let his umbrella fall two or three times before reaching...
Eugene D. Keith Chairman of the Red Book and Register, simultaneously announced an eight weeks contest to begin next week for the editorial and photographic boards...
...public speeches, attended eleven opera performances (way below par), vanquished two rivals (Benes and Kurt von Schuschnigg, Austria's last Chancellor), sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany besides selling it widely in Italy and Insurgent Spain. His only loss was in eyesight: he had to begin wearing spectacles for work. Last week Herr Hitler entertained at a Christmas party 7,000 workmen now building Berlin's new mammoth Chancellery, told them: "The next decade will show those countries with their patent democracy where true culture is to be found...
Last week, fearing that intolerance is spreading over the world so rapidly that little time is left to head it off, New York City's Board of Education decided to try a short cut, ordered tolerant Superintendent Harold George Campbell to begin teaching tolerance at once. To the principals of the city's 1,000 schools, Superintendent Campbell promptly sent an order to teach tolerance to the city's 1,250,000 school children twice each month. Principals are to hold school assemblies describing the contributions of all races and nationalities...
...from England last fortnight hatched a new brood of rumors that the dollar's gold content was about to be cut from 59? to 50?. Asked about these rumors, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wearily gave his standard answer-that he did not."consider them important enough to begin denying...