Word: hess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shop. But last week London music opened at a new stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty's Office...
...German Commander-in-Chief, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, was reported to have arrived from Poland on the Western Front, with headquarters at Bingen.* The No. 4 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot...
...revealed to news correspondents, as the results of a two-year search, that all the top men in A. Hitler & Co., with the sole exception of A. Hitler, long ago took care to deposit fortunes and take out big insurance policies outside of Germany. Hermann GÖring, Rudolf Hess, Paul Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Heinrich Himmler and Julius Streicher were all specifically named.* The total of their holdings was categorically fixed at $34,873,500. Banks of the U. S., South America, Japan, Luxembourg, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Egypt, Estonia, Latvia and Finland were named as depositories...
...Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi and deputy leader of the party, the hirsute anti-Semite who in 1923 was Hitler's beer-hall Putsch-mate...
...take off this uniform until we have achieved victory. . . . However, if something should happen to me; I want the German people to know that I have appointed Field Marshal Göring to become my successor. If something should happen to Field Marshal Göring, my deputy Rudolf Hess, will take his place; and if something should happen to Hess, a senate which I will soon appoint, will elect his successor, the man most worthy to succeed me-that is to say, the bravest...