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Loudspeakers summoned the populace to the streets night before the Congress opened as doughty Adolf Hitler arrived by plane, drove through the town to the modest little Deutscher Hof, arm bobbing up & down in salute...
...heated by Diesel burners. Like cement from a cement mixer seething soups and stews flowed from these to be rushed on 400 light trucks to some 800,000 robust and hungry Germans, the rest being fed in Nürnberg homes and hotels. In the modest little Hotel Deutscher Hof, where one Adolf Hitler used to stay when he was the nervous leader of a minuscule party, a room was made ready last week for the Realmleader...
...drawings for the newspapers, had them accepted, prowled through the museums, observed the most leisurely, tolerant culture of pre-War Germany. In these fine years he did four of the water colors on view last week in Munich, including well-rendered "architectural" pictures of Munich's Alter Hof (see cut) and of its National Theatre, a country house outside Munich. It all ended in August 1914. Hitler, a humble, alien lover of monarchical Germany, enlisted, not in the Austrian Army, but in the 16th Infantry Regiment of the King of Bavaria...
...pilots and spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...
Last week President Hoover appointed Brig.-General Samuel Hof, Assistant Chief of Ordnance, to be the Army's Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of Maj.-General, filling the place of Maj.-General Clarence Charles Williams, retired on April 1. So elated was broad-shouldered, 72-inch Maj.-General Hof that he went straight to the golf course, beatfor the first time an habitual opponent...