Word: hermann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called to order shortly after 9 p. m. by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring among whose countless titles is President of the Reichstag, Germany's 600 Deputies first waived all the Reichstag's rules of procedure and voted to place themselves "under the leadership principle." Thus they approved in advance whatever decrees from Realmleader Hitler might be read out to them by President Göring...
...Lucky, as usual, was the Saturday Evening Post, with a series of articles about Huey Long already appearing (Prelude to a Heterocrat: The Evolution of Huey Long, by Hermann B. Deutsch). Observers recalled how the Satevepost, which goes to press five weeks in advance of publication, had an article on the Harding Administration the week that President died in San Francisco...
...sleep in its corridors, an eight instead of a five-hour day for city employes. His nomination is conceded and his chances of election in November are considered good. Running on the same ticket with him for District Attorney is Curtis Bok, liberal grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who appeals to socialite New Dealers...
...Breaking off his South German rustication at last, the Realmleader sped north to Kiel this week, watched naval war games from the flagship Schleswig- Holstein with Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg and No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Air Minister and Prussian Premier...
...expansion that a Montana-born financier, William Boyce Thompson, beginning his career as a small mining promoter, soon found himself involved in politics that had international ramifications, and before the end of his life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography of Thompson, succeeds in showing how the abrupt widening of Western financial and intellectual horizons created confusions unlimited, bred political and moral dilemmas that robbed Thompson's triumph of all personal satisfaction...