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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels ordered Nazi newspapers to fire away full blast at "plutocracy." Result: the Nazi movement was described as a "revolt against capitalism." Great Britain was pictured as a nation in which the ruling class lived in luxury while the workers starved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Reich v. Plutocrats | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...final blast the Communist Party stated: "There is but one race--the human race. We want to settle our differences the American way without an appeal to force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNIST PARTY AND PREACHER ATTACK Y.A.A. | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...originally the fortress of a medieval robber baron. All summer long, Lauritz Melchior invites his soul in this rustic barony. He likes to dress in Lederhosen, hunt his own land for rabbit, red deer or pheasant. On these expeditions he always carries his little brass hunting horn, blows a blast on it like Siegfried himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Last week Dick Maney was living a pressagent's dream: he was handling six shows at once* four more than any other press agent, and all that the Theatrical Managers, Agents & Treasurers Union allows. His factory was going full blast under strict union rules: he had hired an assistant as soon as he handled two shows; a second assistant as soon as he handled four; a third when he handled six. His helpers were getting a total of $275 a week; he, a minimum of $625 and very likely about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Portrait of a Press Agent | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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