Word: funk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas the reliable Swiss news paper Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung noted that Germans were buying vacuum cleaners, kitchen utensils, lamps, radio sets, suit cases, purses, wallets out of all proportion to their past needs. Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk publicly complained that people were investing their money in bathtubs. Last week an official anti-hoarding campaign began as stories were circulated of a woman who bought six electric carpet sweepers, of others who collected copper coins, fur coats, oriental rugs...
...swan-song speech in Salzburg, Herr Funk bore this inference out: "The National Socialist Government declines to cover war costs by means of the printing press." He urged rather popular savings, not of Sachwerte (real wealth) but of marks and pfennigs. "Some people are hoarding even bathtubs, although they can neither eat them, wear them around their necks, nor pay taxes with them." Why Herr Funk put taxes in a class with food and adornment, as something every good German should enjoy, was made clear by his hints that the Government might soon have to levy some new taxes. Best...
...Walther Funk has been much laughed about in Germany as Economics Minister, much loved as a man. Germans call him "gentlest of all the Nazis," and consider him eminently tolerant, fairminded, honest. Short, fat as Santa Claus, just turning 50, he is the funniest after-dinner speaker in Berlin, and about the only Nazi bigwig who will give foreign newspapermen a straight answer...
...great economic theories which, in his years as a financial journalist, Walther Funk made plausible at least to Germans, have in recent months been openly and flatly called harebrained. One National Socialist panacea followed another until it was recently rumored in Berlin that a Chinese economist named What Now was being brought in to clear up the Funk mess. Yet last week, Minister Funk was praised in no less a German economic journal than the semi-official Vierjahres-plan-for "an organization achievement of the greatest dimensions." The achievement: devising a General Economic Council which, in effect, kicked himself...
...Herr Funk, always known as a Göring henchman, had by this shift given his portly hero more administrative titles and more actual power than any other man in Germany, including Adolf Hitler. Hermann Göring is now President of the General Economic Council, Chief of the National Defense Council, Administrator of the Four-Year Plan, Air Minister, Supreme Commander of the Air Force, Prime Minister of Prussia, President of the Reichstag, Reich Hunting Master, Reich Fishing Master. Walther Funk retained his posts as Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, but his jurisdictions were cut, his staff reduced...