Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saving for a lot of people," he argued that the law recognizes unborn children as living human beings in many other instances. It permits a child to inherit from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait until its birth." The board of Tax Appeals, lacking a precedent to go by, reserved decision...
Among Nazi officials the bright-eyed Propaganda Minister is called "Little Doctor." Year ago, in a Berlin film, a seductive Czech actress was asked how to get ahead in the world. Her reply was: "Go find a good doctor." The audience, which guessed what doctor was meant, roared with laughter. The Little Doctor hurriedly withdrew the film. An added quirk to the situation was the fact that the Czech leading lady, Lida Baarova, was a particularly admired protegee of Dr. Goebbels. Last week, as Dr. Goebbels lay sick abed with what was officially reported as intestinal influenza, Lida Baarova...
Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...
Because no reliable confirmation of this story could be got from Berlin, best guess seemed to be that it was an echo of an earlier, better-documented tale of the Doctor's goings-on. Late in August it was whispered around Berlin that somebody, possibly Actress Baarova herself, had clouted Goebbels in the Baarova apartment. He did not make an appearance during the late August, visit of Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy, and when he made his brief appearance at the Nürnberg Congress in September, he was carrying the unmistakable vestige of a black...
...anniversary of Nazi rule. Having failed to give his usual Christmas broadcast to Germany's children, Dr. Goebbels rallied for New Year's, and in a firm, clear voice expressed the general feeling in Germany that 1938 had been a great year for the Nazis. Said the doctor: "Never has it been so hard to say good-by to a dying year as to 1938. It was a magnificent year filled with victories and successes like none before...