Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler, although himself the son of a petty Austrian frontier official and although he once earned his living as a decorator's assistant, was profoundly upset by the reproof last week of General von Fritsch et al.-for clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg...
Meanwhile the docile German people were permitted to learn almost nothing of all this. They were even told in Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, the Völkischer Beobachter, that Field Marshal von Blomberg was in Berlin with the Führer last week when he was in fact honeymooning at the Hotel Quisisana, Capri, Italy. At German frontiers bales of foreign newspapers were snatched off every arriving train, confiscated, destroyed. Fridericus, a typical Nazi Party newspaper, front-paged an editorial keynoting: "How smoothly everything goes in the Reich compared with conditions in America...
...Comes Back (Warner Bros.). Sock for sock, the prize ring cannot compare with its cinema counterpart for fury, excitement, sustained pace; this, in spite of the fact that few actors are natural sockers. Newest and most natural of the cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
...United was glad to buy out his plantations and fleet for 300,000 shares of United stock. Sam Zemurray has been United's managing director in charge of operations since his 1932 coup. Last week he became head of the company in name as well as fact by succeeding President Francis R. Hart who died last month. Purely on a business basis, President Zemurray is supposed to have backed a couple of Central American revolutions. Elected last week to the new post of board chairman for United was camera-shy Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1934-36) Undersecretary...
...arrived it was generally assumed that if he could not wangle actual U. S. participation in the cartel he would try to get the big steel concerns to force the little ones now engaged in foreign dumping to join in the "gentlemen's agreement." Last week the only fact that emerged from a great cloud of secrecy was that the Earl would do his negotiating with the Steel Exporters Association of America, an organization of big steel concerns. The Earl of Dudley was asked point-blank if he wanted to arrange price-fixing. Said he coyly but mistakenly...