Word: demagog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landslide in its direction. The parties: Social Democrats, Nationalists, Catholic Centrists, Communists, German People's Party, the new Staatspartei, and the up-and-coming National Socialist Workers party. Seeking the element which precipitated last week's turbulence, observers unanimously pointed to the Fascists and their demagog-oratorical, Jew-baiting, terrorist Adolf Hitler...
...Demagog Hitler and General Erich von Ludendorff gathered the nucleus of the present German Fascist party, attempted a revolution in 1923 which they hoped would make them Germany's dictators but which unhappily only brought them to trial for treason. Ludendorff was released, retired to obscurity and the private worship of Norse war gods (TIME, June 16). Hitler, sentenced to five years of military imprisonment, was released at the end of eight months, so completely destitue of a following did he seem...
Personally attractive for his 41 years, virile, an orator comparable to Kerensky, Trotzky or Mussolini, Demagog Hitler soon reclaimed his old position. To his cause have flocked many an adoring Jungfraulein and hot-blooded youngster. The latter he has organized into clean-up gangs called "storm squads," comparable to the Communist "Red Front Squads." So closely do the Fascist tenets resemble those of Communism that many of his disciples are onetime Communists, grown weary of their cabal's inactivity...
...large block of seats in the Reichstag old President Paul von Hindenburg would have an extremely ticklish time organizing his government. To gain Hitler's support, Chancellor Heinrich Briining would doubtless be forced to turn over the minister of interior to a Fascist, placing police power in Demagog Hitler's hands just as it now is in Thu- ringia. That, believe lovers of Democracy, would ring the knell of the Republic...
...greatest draughtsmen, John Leech and Sir John Tenniel, later famed for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrations. The magazine Fun carried a series of bitter drawings by Matthew Somerville Morgan, whose work has only recently been discovered by Lincoln authorities, purporting to show "Honest Abe" a thief, demagog and charlatan. But it was in the South the most galling pictures were drawn. One Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet-master capering...