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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators of things that are holy" to the Nazis. Thus kaput was written to their German careers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Purged Comedians | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Munitions maker Irénée du Pont remembered with a Christmas present Senator Gerald Prentice Nye and each member of his Senate Munitions Investigating Committee. Mr. du Pont's present, in each case: a copy of Kapoot (kaput: "done for"), an account of Russian poverty and industrial inefficiency by Grant Carveth Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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