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First new voice to be launched was Wisconsin-born Tenor Eyvind Laholm's (real name: Johan Edwin Johnson). Tenor Laholm had already spent 14 years making himself one of the most famed Wagnerian tenors in Germany, had won personal applause from musical Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But until two years ago, when he became Hitler's favorite singer, he was practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...great shakes as a chemist was simple, earnest Fritz Kuhn. But he had a hero. One man he honored above all men: Mein Fuhrer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Victory. "It is against the nature of things that the Fuhrer should be able to continue to overrun one sturdy and independent nation after another; declare it to be German whether it is or not, and expect it to remain a vassal State. . . . [British sea power] and France's wonderful army . . . [will] bring victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Businessman | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Arriving in Ankara from conferences with Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Turkey, famed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, declared: "It is quite clear what Germany is fighting for. It is to avoid a repetition of the tragedy of Versailles and to build a better Europe. It is to do away once and for all with the necessity of European nations fighting each other twice in a century to establish 'European equilibrium'.... England proposes a European Commonwealth for the future. She had had ample time since the last war to establish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: A Better Europe? | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...wedding, she stated with quiet directness: "This is the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy of her love; this is not the marriage of The Netherlands to Germany." She wrote to Herr Hitler, and the passports were returned. On the Fuhrer's birthdays she has always tactfully sent congratulations, and fortnight ago, when he escaped assassination, she wired her "relief" at his good fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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