Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain in their anti-Comintern Pact last fortnight, Italy and Germany welded an iron ring around France. Last week France and her ally, Britain, struck back by beginning at long last to forge an even bigger one around the Axis powers. Europe had not been so close to a general war since an armistice was declared to the last one, November...
...grown by leaps & bounds until it is now an organization of 230,000, and an SS man is far more important, politically, than a soldier or a policeman. Indeed, due to the fact that Herr Himmler followed the romantic, mystical streak of Wotan-worship developed by old General Ludendorff, the SS has become the most elite and exotic body of cops the world has ever known. Defined as a "National Socialist soldierly order of Nordic men," the SS took many of their rules from the old Order of Teutonic Knights. Fundamental principles: loyalty, honor, courage. The SS cardinal virtue: blind...
...Herr Himmler would probably come fourth, but not necessarily so. No secret is it that he has aspired to the posts of Minister of the Interior and of War. He is intensely jealous of the Army officer group and last year went so far as to try to remove General Werner von Fritsch, then Commander-in-Chief of the Army, from his job by charging homosexuality. The General was ousted-for other reasons-but in the face of the plain truth that he was definitely not homosexual, the Army demanded and got General von Fritsch's public exoneration...
Next, Mr. Ickes got down to the cases of the "snipers and guttersnipers." Snipers were General Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. "While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies...
Last January John Davison Rockefeller Jr. reached the age of 65 and last fortnight he announced that, according to regulations, he had retired from the Rockefeller General Education Board, and would soon quit the Rockefeller Foundation. Last week, to the surprise of scientists all over the U. S., the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research enforced retirement rules on its working scientists for the first time, suddenly announced the withdrawal of five of its most brilliant members. Although the five scientists will hand over their administrative duties to younger colleagues, they will all receive pensions, and most of them will continue...