Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Propagate Germans. In 1929, 27-year-old Gertrud ScholtzKlink joined the Nazi movement. Five years later, Hitler appointed her Leader of German Women. She told German women: "We do everything regularly and jointly in accordance with the Führer's will. We obey unconditionally." She sent them to factories and farms, relentlessly pursued the Nazi race creed. "We bring the fruits of our motherhood to the Führer," she said, "and say to him, 'It is the best that we have. Therefore it belongs...
...Lose Track of Them. In May 1945, the Leader of German Women and her husband fled from Berlin. Caught in a crossfire between German and U.S. troops, she was wounded five times. They picked up the youngest child, took refuge with Princess Pauline, who said that she cared for Frau Heiszmeyer "as one would help a wounded animal...
...Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the telephone...
...anthologists never knew him, and would have ignored him if they had. But all their Rapunzel-haired poets together never spoke to an audience the size of his. And when he died last .week, the New York Times obit said of Philip Stack: "He was rated the leader in his art." It was a lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar to the Esquire oglers who glanced...
Died. Major General Uzal Girard Ent, U.S.A. (ret.), 48, leader of the low-level mass bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in 1943; after long illness; in Denver. Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1944 crash, he set an example for other paraplegics by ultimately learning to walk with braces...