Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remember the Cardiff? Nearly 21 years ago she steamed proudly (her nose was wet; she never learned how to take a header) up the broad Firth of Forth, with the Friedrich der Grosse and the other beaten Germans in her wake-a wagging Welsh terrier leading a pack of drooping greyhounds...
...tourists, mostly guests of the Nazi Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organization, and Reich Minister of Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was conspicuously present in the front row. Before the festival ends next week they will see three native German dramas: Josef von Eichendorff's Die Freier, Friedrich von Schiller's Die Räuber, Gerhart Hauptmann's Florian Geyer. But Shakespeare is the main dish. A Midsummer Night's Dream opened the festival, was scheduled for 21 performances...
...Friedrich Ekkehard is the author of Storm-Breed, whose down-at-the-mouth hero is revived by hearing Hitler speak "beautiful words, splendid words." Gottfried Rothacker's Frontier Village told of the pre-Munich yearnings of a Sudeten German to be reunited with the Reich. The book sold 60,000 copies...
...steadfastly steered by their State to sell services. "We must export," recently said Herr Hitler, a legitimate heir to this tradition, "or die." In the rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history. A patron saint among German economists is Friedrich List, who spent seven years in the U. S., learned to admire Alexander Hamilton's protectionist philosophy and went home to write his National System of Political Economy (1841). While Prussia was busy consolidating the German nation by successive wars with Denmark, Austria and France, no one paid much...
...development of political thought during the last century was the subject of the inter-House symposium held in Lowell House last night. Including the fields of History, Government, and Philosophy, seven speakers impersonated typical characters of different periods, varying from a delegate to the International Workingmen's Association to Friedrich Engels...