Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest of our new writers (he is 45) worked 15 years on Scripps-Howard newspapers, most recently editing war news for the Cleveland Press. ... A new U.S. at War writer (also a Nieman Fellow) was our Seattle correspondent in 1937, left to take his bride on a pre-Hitler honeymoon that included almost every country in Europe, later worked as assistant city editor on the Seattle Times and as Army correspondent for Collier's in seven western states. . . . And still another new writer was head of our Detroit News Bureau, a job he prepared for by 12 years...
Future historians will fill yards of bookshelves dividing the credit for the invasion success among the Allied generals, admirals and statesmen, and the discredit among Hitler, Rommel and Rundstedt. It is generally agreed already that the Germans held back their reserves too long, and their Fifteenth Army north of the Seine until too late, because Eisenhower cleverly kept them worried about a second invasion in Pas de Calais. Bradley was the line smasher as well as quarterback for the Allied operations (as he is now). He did not fumble, and he invariably capitalized on the errors of the enemy...
...France wants a pact with Spain, but not with "gangster Franco ... the ally of Hitler and the enemy of France." (In the diplomatic gallery Spanish Envoy José de Sangroniz listened stonily. From the Assembly came the day's noisiest cheers, shouts: "Très bien! Très bien...
...dissonances could kill-and be beamed 3,500 miles-the halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...