Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real demonstration came on the streets of Berlin. As the Fuhrer drove from the Chancellery to the Lustgarten on his way to view a military birthday parade in his honor, 2,000,000 heils greeted him. On the new Via Triumphalis, the broad East-West "axis" which Herr Hitler himself ordered cut through the heart of a fast rebuilding capital, the former corporal acted for all the world like an emperor. He wore his usual simple brown Nazi uniform, but on the cap, below a spread eagle, were gilded oak leaves encasing a swastika-the mark of the supreme military...
Changes. Not all of Adolf Hitler's birthdays since he came to power have been celebrated thus. In 1933, only three months after he first became Chancellor, the public birthday celebration was confined to the wearing of edelweiss, the Führer's favorite flower. The first birthday parade was held in 1935, but it was small compared to those yet to come and to that held last week...
...Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George began his soth year in Parliament. In their respective countries, Adolf Hitler had nothing but praise, old Lloyd George merely a short respite from criticism...
...Last week word was passed around in Prague that it would be a good trick to decorate the memorial of John Huss, martyred Czech hero who fought for reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment is obnoxious to their Nazi masters, sorrowful Czech policemen removed the decorations...
Such was perhaps the most successful bit of peace propaganda* attempted as an estimated 1,000,000 U. S. undergraduates observed annual "Peace Day" on Adolf Hitler's birthday. While most cheered collective security and President's Roosevelt's peace appeal to the dictators, on many a campus isolationists held rival meetings...