Word: gumbel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gumbel. The Nazis had one victory for the week. After weeks of angry protest, Fascist students at Heidelberg succeeded in having tall, stoop-shouldered Professor Emil J. Gumbel dropped from the faculty. His crime according to the Nazis was that he had announced in a lecture: "A turnip is better than a war memorial, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies.'' Professor Gumbel heard the news at Cornell last week where he was attending the International Congress of Genetics (see p. 21). He was not surprised...
...Emil Gumbel's real dynamite was in three books that he published between 1919 and 1922, Four years of War Lies, Two Years of Political Murders, Four Years of Political Murders. In these the Professor listed proof of over 400 political assassinations. In 1924 the Minister of Justice admitted the truth of most of them but they did not endear him to the Nazis...
Goebbels. Offsetting the ousting of Gumbel, the Hitlerites had their quickest wit, their loudest mouth closed up for a week. By government order Der Angriff, Nazi organ, was suppressed for "inciting to disobedience and resistance against the State." Editor of Der Angriff is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a gnomelike little man with a tart tongue and a club foot, who appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when...
Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg. The reported reason: he had offended Heidelberg's patriotic sentiment by declaring that "a turnip is better than a war monument, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies." Professor Gumbel denied saying this...