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...were authoritarian and anticapitalistic and therefore should work together economically had numerous backers in the Nazi Party, chiefly among the followers of Hitler's lieutenant, Ernst Roehm, and Niekisch's publication was allowed to continue. When in 1934 Chancellor Hitler had Roehm shot, however, Niekisch fell into disfavor and was sent to a concentration camp. He was released in six months...
...gangplank in Manhattan, down it marched Ambassador Joe Kennedy. He denied that his second return from London within six months had any high significance: he was just going to spend Christmas with son Jack at Palm Beach, rest for six weeks. The idea that he was in disfavor at the White House for having applauded the Chamberlain policy of "appeasement," he laughed off by asserting that his speeches in England were read in advance in Washington. Then he shed some of the celebrated Kennedy gloom...
...football schedule. This, I think, is the best solution to the problem of Chicago's consistent gridiron defeats. But if the University administration thinks that schedule in which the team plays smaller schools of their own athletic calibre is harmful to public relations, I do not look with disfavor upon the abolition of intercollegiate football...
...that he was stricken, that the greatest tragedy of his life had taken place. But observers who noted that he seemed as broad-shouldered as ever added an-other reason: Before Hitler took power, Count Keyserling had announced that the Nazis were unfit to rule, has been in official disfavor ever since...
Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan, having escaped after eight months in a concentration camp as "Hitler's personal prisoner." he read the headlines announcing the Blood Purge. The shock left him rocking precariously on the pavement. But he had salvaged his life and a profitable store of Hitlerian anecdotes...