Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he did, Hoffman was hardly mollified. What he had said, Lesinski explained, was merely that Hoffman "had no more authority than a rabbit" to act as a one-man committee to investigate labor trouble in Michigan. To this Lesinski had added: "That to me is what Mr. Hitler tried to do to the unions in Germany . . . And Mr. Hitler was a pimp of Joe Stalin, a prostitute...
...When Hitler came to power, Wurm quickly became an outspoken defender of his church. So strong was his position that in 1934, after he had repeatedly criticized the Nazi regime, he was placed under only a mild house arrest. But the farmers and craftsmen of Württemberg, who knew his firm handshake and his practice of answering his own doorbell, staged an angry demonstration, demanding that Bishop Wurm be released. He was. Although he continued his fight against the Nazis, they never bothered him again...
...Hitler was a baby compared with this gang," said ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman last week, in language that was tough even in an era of tough talk. "I don't think the American people have this world conflict in focus . . . Let's talk about it for what it is-an attempt by the gang in the Politburo to take over the world . . . If you have been out in Asia ... it gives you the heebie-jeebies...
...climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
Attempts to control the minds of educators and young men are ominously similar to Hitler's tactics in Germany, Mather said. He cited the case of a faculty member in Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana, who was dismissed because he and served as the chairman of a Wallace rally. Such actions put a cloud of fear over university teachers which prevents them from expressing their real opinions or associating with any persons who might be suspicious...