Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back on his job as a Ford salesman in Detroit was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 25, second in succession to the German throne since his brother Wilhelm married a commoner (TIME, June 12). Salesman Hohenzollern spent most of a six-month vacation in Doom, Holland, failed to sell a Ford to the ex-Kaiser, who calls him "our little American." Said he: "Grandpa certainly is keen about your President Roosevelt...
...congratulate you, dear ol' boy! Splendid program! Fine settin'." Followed a slap on the back like the crack of doom. "Clem" Hobson lurched forward. The delicate stitching on his eyeball broke apart...
...peace of the world-proved to be about all that is left of the Four-Power Pact after an emasculation which Il Duce (once an editor) described last week as "editing." To friends of Disarmament the Mussolini Pact in its final form did seem, however, to sound indirectly the doom of the Disarmament Conference, moribund for the past 16 months. "Should questions . . . remain in suspense on conclusion of that Conference," reads Article III of Il Patto a Quattro, the signatories "reserve the right to re-examine these questions between themselves . . . with a view to insuring their solution through the appropriate...
...Some 300,000 men massed in the execution field by the great Schlageter cross last week, the greatest single crowd Western Germany has ever seen, but the ceremony was mild as ginger beer. By advice of counsel Adolf Hitler and former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm stayed away. Wilhelm of Doom sent a wreath, but the only Hohenzollern representative was fat Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") in his Nazi uniform. Chief oration came from bull-necked Wilhelm Hermann Goring who rattled no sabres, contented himself with saying...
...have you committed high treason?' That court will judge us all: the Quartermaster General [Ludendorff] of the old Army, his officers and soldiers, who have wanted to do their duty as Germans for the people and the Fatherland, who wanted to fight and die! You may doom us a thousand times and yet the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History will tear to pieces the indictment of the State prosecutor and the sentence of this Court! Her verdict will be acquittal...