Word: heil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife went your anagramatic correspondent one better. Instead of scrambl A. HITLER to THE LIAR (TIME, April 10), she transposed it to HEIL...
...afternoon last week Adolf Hitler stepped up on a platform in City Hall Square at Wilhelmshaven. German naval base on the North Sea. A few inches in front of him was a bullet-proof glass shield†. Packed in the square beyond was an audience of 80,000 Heil-Hitlering Germans who had just attended the launching of the 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz. Beyond them was a vast radio audience of millions in Germany, Britain, the U. S. waiting anxiously to hear a speech which had been widely heralded as the Führer's answer...
...name, and not until he was 40 years old did he get permission from the authorities to use his patronymic (which he transmuted to Hitler). Had that permission not been granted, Nazis would last week have raised their arms to the speaker at Wilhelmshaven and cried not "Heil Hitler!'' but "Heil Schicklgruber...
Meanwhile in Prague Germans began arrogant demonstrations. Storm Troopers in Henleinist uniforms posted themselves outside German schools. Squads of German students in jack boots and arm bands jostled their way through the bewildered crowds shouting "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!" When Czech policemen tried to shut up one obstreperous young Storm Trooper, he shouted "Let me alone! The time for all this is over...
Lucky wangler of this terrific haul was Ski-enthusiast Walter Heil, Director of the de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (an art gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...