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Meanwhile came Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech and the sharp veering of German policy peacewards. Some 300,000 men massed in the execution field by the great Schlageter cross last week, the greatest single crowd Western Germany has ever seen, but the ceremony was mild as ginger beer. By advice of counsel Adolf Hitler and former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm stayed away. Wilhelm of Doom sent a wreath, but the only Hohenzollern representative was fat Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") in his Nazi uniform. Chief oration came from bull-necked Wilhelm Hermann Goring who rattled no sabres, contented himself with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schlageter Day | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...musical feature-length pictures . . . until the imitative craze dies down. . . ." This smug bit of ballyhoo, by Major Albert Warner for Gold Diggers of 1933, would have sounded more sincere if Warner Brothers' current cinemusicomedy had been a less obvious copy of their earlier one. The casts-Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks-are similar. The narrative frameworks of both pictures-the inception and production of a Broadway show-are identical. This time the suspense is caused not by a chorus girl's big chance to be a star but by a mysterious young song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Wardrooms and British service clubs echoed with the news last week that "Ginger" Boyle was going to sea again, and in style. As Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet, he will hold the second highest ranking post afloat in Britain's navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ginger in Command | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...return of beer not only stirred the nation's economic interest but raised a tangle of legal questions for definitive answers to which President Roosevelt had to look to the Supreme Court. Major paradox: the new law assumes that 3.2% beer is no more intoxicating than ginger ale, yet the Federal Government stands pledged to protect from importations any State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It's Off | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Greatest beer city by reason of its fame was Milwaukee, and great was the beerage thereof-but 13 years have taken their toll. The Pabsts like the Busches stood by to let Prohibition pass. Fred Pabst turned to cheese, ginger ale. near beer, pop. While he was doing so a chemist, Harris Perlstein. in Chicago picked up an old brewery and started to make malt syrup in a bigger and more profitable way than the ex-brewers. "Blue Ribbon" was Pabst's beer and Perlstein took '"Blue Ribbon'' for his syrup. Pabst sued and lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Resurrection | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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