Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leader Ernst Roehm (a notorious homosexual) and the Führer quarreled. Roehm quit the country, became military adviser to Bolivia. The Führer saw the weakness of the loosely organized, unwieldy mob of Brown Shirts and decided to form, within the Storm Troopers, a carefully chosen elite group of men to be known as the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Corps"), better known as the 55 Guards. Their primary function at first was to guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next four years...
...ring has usually been labeled Nazi No. 2, Dr. Goebbels No. 3. 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...
...cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...
...Heart's in the Highlands (by William Saroyan; produced by the Group Theatre) is the first play of William Saroyan, literary jackanapes and self-styled genius. Originally slated for only five performances, My Heart's in the Highlands was warmly praised by several critics, now plans an indefinite...
...Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters...