Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson's ability to lick inflation by this piecemeal method has nothing to do with his partial power over prices. For Henderson is also the administrator of civilian supply, with complete power over rationing. Without a Gestapo no price ceiling is effective on scarce materials whose supply is uncontrolled; and when the supply is controlled-i.e., rationed-the price ceiling enforces itself. Thereafter, as both Britain and Canada know, control of inflation is a Treasury matter: more taxes, more savings...
...recalled that the proud Field Marshal's troops, after taking Kiev and Kharkov, had been roughly handled in the Russian counteroffensive. It was also recalled that the aristocratic Field Marshal had long regarded Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as a crude, lower-middle-class upstart. In Czecho-Slovakia, when the Field Marshal tried to take over a hotel for his staff from Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo Chief, refusing, declared: "Some day I'll settle up with...
...privy information and protection, Hitler was said to be forming a secret service even more mysterious than the most arcane Gestapo circles...
...glory as any Army ever had. But he had often demanded that the fighting be according to his, rather than the Army's strategy. This had led to several open breaks between Adolf Hitler and the Army High Command. Adolf Hitler was protected by the presence of his Gestapo and Elite Guardsmen scattered throughout the Army. But his feud with the Army had become widespread gossip, not only in Germany, but elsewhere...
...yellow, high-hedged German Legation in Guatemala City, where Gestapo-man Christian Zinsser operated until he left for the Orient, has "no less than 14 short-wave receiving sets," houses two crack German flyers in charge of five airports-all within easy bombing distance of the Panama Canal...