Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine-Prussia Corp.'s new plant now building will extract from coal 70.000 tons of gasoline and 20,000 tons of byproducts annually, is to be a major supply link in the Fatherland's Rearmament...
...heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue under Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht if the Fatherland is to avoid perilous overspending for rearmament, catastrophic inflation...
...refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
Inviting imprisonment by a reckless shot at the Fuhrer the Bishop declared: "Great men can be spoiled by too much worship and adulation and made incompetent to fulfill the aims of statesmanship. No nation should seek to elevate a faithful son of the Fatherland to the throne...
...three German journalists, ordered by the British Home Office to leave London (TIME, Aug. 16), packed their bags last week and returned to the Fatherland. They were pursued by indignant shouts from the British press, for the Third Reich had retaliated by ordering intelligent, slightly pontifical Norman Ebbutt, for twelve years correspondent in Berlin of London's almost sacred Times, to be replaced by ''somebody less concerned with trivialities and more with facts." The British were shocked, regarded it as a blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist...