Word: hitlerize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest career of German Butcher Gustav Gruebner was crowned last week with a hero's funeral. From Adolf Hitler came a lily wreath and from Kalthof, Danzig Territory, where he was killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig...
...Worried musical observers report that Adolf Hitler is forsaking Wagner for such tuneful fluffiness as Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
...clue to Nazi restraint was found in the return to Danzig, after more than two months absence, of League of Nations High Commissioner, Professor Karl J. Burckhardt, whom Adolf Hitler recently described as "a man of extraordinary tact." Official explanation of the Commissioner's return was that he was to undertake a survey of the Danzig situation for the League. The Poles greeted his arrival as a reassertion of League authority. Nazi newspapers, cued by suggestions in the French and British press that "Danzig is not worth a war," thought they knew better, and hailed tactful Professor Burckhardt...
...York World's Fair:**John Jacob Astor III; Henry Ford, who let school children snapshoot him; Glamorite Brenda Frazier; her onetime cavalier, William Livingston, who dined at another table; Vittorio Cini, Commissioner General of the 1942 Rome Exposition (said he: "Mussolini and Hitler are thinking peace"); Playboy James Donahue, who smashed a photographer's camera when he snapped Cousin Barbara (Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...
Most anonymous of Berle's recent coups was the President's last-minute appeal to Hitler during the Munich Crisis, which he coauthored. Most conspicuous coup was a "confidential" memo, which he issued two months before on the Monopoly Investigation (he called the village grocer as much of a monopolist as any trust). One motive behind the Monopoly memorandum was Berle Jr.'s private feud with competitive White House counsellor, hearty, pragmatic Tom Corcoran, who did not plan the Monopoly Investigation as just another outlet for Berle's talents...