Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
While both societies have decided Fascist or Nazi complexions, neither plugs Party propaganda unduly. Periodically both think of themselves as part of a world-wide working people's organization for better-spent leisure. At Berlin is located an International Central Office for Work and Joy, presided over by Dr. Robert Ley, the German Labor Front-Leader. This bureau grew out of two World Congresses for Recreation, the first in Los Angeles in 1932, the second in Hamburg in 1936. The third-with the name now changed by Dr. Ley to the World Congress for Work and Joy-was held...
...Olympic committee, for 35 years chairman of the advisory Intercollegiate Athletic Association, president of the First World Congress for Recreation. Largely responsible for a big amusement program was the athletic, sporty Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace who is also president of the After-Work Organization. One Work and Joy athletic exhibition was watched by 80,000 spectators...
Using synonyms for Strength through Joy you would obtain Force through Gladness or Power through Pleasure which are obviously very hackneyed phrases...
Treasury Department-Chief General Counsel Herman Oliphant. (Alternate: Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples, Director of the Procurement Division...