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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without the Mask. As though for a Liberty Loan Drive, the Ministry for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rushed to German "educative meetings" Dr. Goebbels' brand new "educational film" prepared weeks ago?Jewry Without The Mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ad Nauseam! | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will be in German hands. The two parts of Czechoslovakia will be connected by tunnels and overpasses. >So completely has Czechoslovakia come under German authority that last week it proceeded in the best authoritarian manner to nominate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Split | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...drive got under way in the houses and extended to the dormitories and graduate schools. Committees have been formed in all the houses with the result that Adams leads in total amount of money contributed, while Lowell has obtained the most signatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee Drive for Funds Receives Contributions, Commendations by Dignitaries | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

Several instances of unusual generosity came to the attention of the Committee. In Lowell House a tutor who felt particularly bad about the lot of the German refugees contributed $100. In another house, a student revealed that his mother had read about the drive in a Philadelphia newspaper and had sent a check...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee Drive for Funds Receives Contributions, Commendations by Dignitaries | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

Telegrams commending the drive continued to pour into the offices of the Committee in Adams House. Albert Einstein, a world-renowned mathematician and himself a German refugee, wired "Appreciate greatly your generous effort as aid in emergency and as humanitarian attitude." Frances Farmer, Broadway and Hollywood star, sent her best wishes, as did Helen Hayes, the first lady of the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee Drive for Funds Receives Contributions, Commendations by Dignitaries | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

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