Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School...
...work; 2) vast armament and building programs; 3) establishment of compulsory labor camps in which every young man must serve six months before beginning two years' service in the army; 4) growth of Nazi bureaucracy needing more Government employes to handle the complexities and restrictions of German law...
...production of cheap Volkswagen automobiles promised by Führer Hitler, the rebuilding of Berlin and Munich according to the Fuhrer's ambitious schemes. To provide labor for these and other purely Government projects, Field Marshal Göring, Four-Year Plan Commissioner, decreed a sensational labor conscription law...
...draft compelling them to serve on any assigned job, commanded by the Reich Institute for Labor Placement & Unemployment Insurance. This drastic decree will be applied to all regardless of race, sex or occupation. While Nazi authorities gave only vague hints as to the true meaning of the labor draft law, they did deny that it was a war measure. To the disenfranchised, persecuted Jews the decree meant they would soon be working on Führer Hitler's projects. Perhaps the best explanation was given by Commissioner Göring's newspaper Essener National Zeitung: "Private economic life...
When in 1936 Producer David Oliver Selznick bought the screen rights to Margaret Mitchell's 1,520,000-copy Gone With the Wind, cinemaddicts jumped to the conclusion that, since his father-in-law is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis Burt Mayer, Producer Selznick would promptly cast two M-G-M stars-probably Clark Gable and Norma Shearer-as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Instead, Producer Selznick shrewdly announced that he had no idea who would play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, said he hoped to discover unknown actors for the parts...