Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their ilk-are in a position to receive from Adolf Hitler vastly more than they ever dreamed of getting when they backed his Nazi Party with their millions. They know best how to profit from inflation, controlled or uncontrolled, and about such mysteries of exalted finance Old Paul von Hindenburg knows conveniently next to nothing...
Month of Truce. Under the fateful Enabling Act (TIME, April 3. 1933) signed by Paul von Hindenburg after he made Adolf Hitler his Chancellor, the President's signature is no longer needed to validate even such Cabinet acts as that which last week created the Economic Tsar...
...discontent and some of it was economic. Germany faces, due to drought, what may be her poorest harvest in years. Potatoes had tripled in price. Meat was ominously cheap as cattle which now cost too much to feed were rashly slaughtered. Next winter, as Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg well know, the German people must go back to eating what they hate- substitute foods...
...once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control of the Fatherland's whole economic life. While the Press kept up a fanfare about the King of Siam and printed countless Hindenburg-with-Hitler pictures, the Chancellor got in the most drastic economic undercover work of his regime...
...Paul is potent now chiefly because the name of HINDENBURG is still so great that Chancellor Hitler is glad to buy this talisman by humoring the President's simple wants. He was more than prepared to bow to the Reichspräsident's will and keep on in office Old Paul's "best comrade" and favorite among all his bygone Chancellors, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, a brother officer in the Feldmarschall's old regiment...