Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin...
Such was perhaps the most successful bit of peace propaganda* attempted as an estimated 1,000,000 U. S. undergraduates observed annual "Peace Day" on Adolf Hitler's birthday. While most cheered collective security and President's Roosevelt's peace appeal to the dictators, on many a campus isolationists held rival meetings...
...pupils was Critias, who, Professor Winspear says, "had been a young man of democratic sympathies" before he fell under Socrates' influence. Critias became the Adolf Hitler of his day. When Athenian aristocrats, with Sparta's help, established an oligarchy, Critias led "the notorious and bloody reactionary dictatorship of the Thirty," which executed some 1,500 Athenians. When Athenian democrats returned to power, they decided "to hew the head off and not hack the limbs," condemned Socrates to death...
...fair about 99% completed. Farthest from completion is the huge amusement section, but even there some 65 separate diversions are ready. One thing World's Fair veterans may find lacking is sex. Despite announced appearances of such numbers as Delia ("Rose Dance") Carroll, who once lifted Adolf Hitler's brows several pegs, Grover Whalen last week insisted that there would be nothing at the fair to shock anyone...
George Palmer Putnam, husband of the late Flier Amelia Earhart and publisher of a book called The Man Who Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...