Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler voted recently as a "resident of Munich." Before leaving for Italy to visit Benito the Builder this week (see p. 17) Der Führer announced that he will rebuild his favorite German city by 1945, slated for construction 24,000 new houses in Munich, half of these for workers...
...although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons for his act, showed its consequences not only in his own career, but in the history of the Populist movement...
Premier Dr. Juan Negrin abruptly dropped out of his Cabinet the moderate Leftist who has been the key man of the regime, National Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, the builder of the People's Army and, as such, comparable to Leon Trotsky, the exiled builder of the Red Army. Nominally the Premier took over the portfolio of Defense himself, but he gave overriding control of the People's Army to able Communist Jesus Hernandez, named him General War Commissar...
...Buck Rogers is 44-year-old Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky but successful head of Seversky Aircraft Corp., famed builder of army planes. A Russian naval flyer who lost a leg in his first World War engagement but recovered later to down 13 German planes, he went to the U. S. on a mission of the Tsar's Government in 1917, never returned to his sovietized land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized...
...Huntsville, Ala. Mercury ("The Community Builder") announced...