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...Hitlerian timetable their fate was probably due to be settled before Yosuke Matsuoka gets back to Tokyo. His round trip will take at least a month. Last week Germans were told to make no railway trips which are not urgent during April, and Labor Minister Dr. Robert Ley ordered factories to give no holidays between April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler's Timetable | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make. They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting with the doctor: "Dr. Ley . . . was sitting at the head of a long table slopped with spilt beer and wine, and strewn with cigar and cigarette butts, broken glass, bread crusts and the remains of meals. He was in a soiled brown uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rogues' Gallery | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Throughout the Reich other Nazi bigwigs celebrated. Prophet Alfred Rosenberg heralded the dawn of the "new social age." And Party Organizing Director Dr. Robert Ley was already turning out little Führers - that long-dreamed-of elite which Adolf Hitler expects to run (and enjoy the first fruits of) the Government and commerce of his part of the world, if and when the Nazis are able to change their war economy into just plain economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler's Hitlers | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...last week Nazi Labor Front Leader Robert Ley, master of Strength through Joy, described Adolf Hitler's still greater project: Joy through Blasting & Bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Oracle Speaks | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Lest the German people should become worried about their declining years, Dr. Ley assured them that victory would more than make up for wartime's hardships -rationing, shortages, forfeited automobiles, postponed pensions. "The plutocracies," wrote confident Dr. Ley, "will pay for all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Pensions Deferred | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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