Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until this letter had well sunk in, Chancellor Hitler lay low last week, then sent up an amazing trial balloon. Nov. 10 will be the 450th birthday of Martin Luther. Flatly acting ReichsbischoF Müller stated that the Chancellor would then renounce Catholicism, become a Protestant and join "The National Evangelical Church." Since Reichsbischof Müller is Herr Hitler's close friend this announcement thunderstruck the Fatherland. Were even Catholics going to be dragooned into a National Church, a Nazi Church? For half a day Chancellor Hitler let the sensation sizzle. Suddenly he decided that Catholics must...
Nazi police with pistols in their belts first swooped down on Germany's famed Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets), organization of World War veterans headed by Labor Minister Franz Seldte, retired soda water manufacturer. The 1,000,000 steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
...Riviera rich Bruce Bundy of Los Angeles announced a plan to form an island colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative basis. Reported ready to join the colony were Mme Jacques Balsan, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, and Frank Jay Gould, who was forced last year to rent his famed Riviera casinos to a French syndicate at a reputed loss...
...Canadian dollar. Canadian producers getting 37.78% more than the pre-Depression price per ounce ir making exciting profits. Mines are stepping up production, prospectors scouring Northern Canada in hope of new discoveries. With the U. S. gold hunt so unprofitable, U. S. businessmen have been rushing to join the Canadian hunt. Last week two U. S. expeditions, each including a famed U. S. ex-athlete, were flying into Canada's gold country...
Ennis H. Coale, 20; is a good Methodist and a member of the Epworth League. When he entered the University of Maryland last autumn, he declined to join the R. O. T. C. Quaker students at Maryland are exempt from military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...