Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emotional, intuitive Adolf Hitler prefers to move in a mysterious way, but the net result of what Der Führer did last week was to put all German domestic affairs in the ham-fists of Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, in effect, became Vice Chancellor under Chancellor Hitler. This was accomplished when Der Führer signed a decree which recalled his promise to the Nurnberg Nazi Party Congress (TIME, Sept. 21) that by 1940 the Fatherland will have been made economically independent of all other countries. Last week the Realmleader vested in General Göring...
...sweeping that this fact is of radical significance and a blow to laissez-faire Capitalism. Another blow was an intimation from the Minister-President that he will fix by decree on Nov. 9 the retail price in Germany of meat and meat products, including beef, pork, tallow, lard, bacon, ham and sausages...
Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...
...18th President solemnly inducted by Princeton's 15th President Harold Willis Dodds, like him the son of a Presbyterian minister. Still in oratorical trim after welcoming Princeton's freshmen two days before, President Dodds took the occasion to declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must cleanse itself . . . if it is to fit itself to be an efficient instrument of social control." That...
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