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Word: bers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant to all Europe that the city was holding out (TIME, Sept. 25), were replaced by deep-toned funereal hymns. It was not, however, Stefan's station but Berlin which finally and authentically announced "Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally!" then burst into a triumphant fanfare of Deutschland über Alles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: Deutschland über Warsaw | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Yesterday I heard the Field Marshal's impassioned speech to the munition workers at Tegel. ... At the end of the speech the workers sang Deutschland über Alles. To my astonishment I heard them sing the old, unchanged words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Hitler Über Alles. Once more Adolf Hitler, advised by his inscrutable intuition, staked everything on a Nazi throw. The Fuhrer announced not only that he accepted the resignations of Field Marshal von Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Purge No. 2 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Station Manager Walter Lyle who in September 1934 jotted down the license num-ber of the Hauptmann car on a $10 ransom bill. Other awards: $5,000 to Truck Driver William J. Allen who found the kidnapped baby's body in May 1932; $2,000 each to Banktellers William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Finders' Keepings | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...hospitalization for persons acutely ill from conditions other than infectious and contagious diseases. The new construction will not remedy the appalling and well-nigh unbelievable conditions existing insofar as tuberculosis, neuropsychiatric conditions, infectious and contagious diseases, incurable and convalescent patients are concerned. . .. Medical and social agencies estimate the num-ber of open tuberculosis patients in New Orleans alone as at 2,500. The Charity Hospital now houses 314. There are at least 2,000 chronic and incurable cases of cancer and heart disease who require proper hospitalization. No facilities are now available to these poor, unfortunate sufferers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Double Bed Charity | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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