Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the World War Walther Rathenau, industrialist and economist, had taken hold of the German economic machine and coordinated it after the fashion of Bernard M. Baruch's later U. S. War Industries Board. A Jew, Rathenau was assassinated after the War by antiSemitic, anti-liberal nationalists. But Rathenau's secret dream of a completely rationalized and goosestep-clicking German industry was remembered by some of his young disciples who became Nazis. Hitler's first and second Four-year plans for making Germany self-sufficient owe more to Rathenau's social thinking than any Nazi would...
Sexpert Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 57, published a book of verse, Love Songs for Young Lovers, which impressed George Bernard Shaw ("You are a poet all right. It can't be helped") and Laureate John Masefield ("I hope you will write more poems like We Burn"). Of herself she said: "Like 'A. E.' and like Housman, I write poetry only when I am in a special state of excitation...
...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...
With a combination of George Bernard Shaw and Broadway's leading exponents of free love romping across the screen at the University Theatre, the current bill is an especially gay affair. It's a rare and happy treat to find two such grade A pictures as "Yes, My Darling Daughter" and "Pygmalion" on the same showing...
...George Bernard Shaw, 82, was made a vice president of London's Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society. Cracked he: ". . . There is not the slightest hope for humankind that I shall practice euthanasia on myself...