Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II began, management of the German coal industry was given to big, blond, blue-eyed Paul Walter, onetime lieutenant of Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. With the title of the Reich's Coal Kommissar, Herr Walter descended on the producers and retailers, organized them into State-operated syndicates, controlled coal from the mine to the consumer. It was not a successful arrangement. Producers resented State intrusion, labor kicked, consumers got more red tape than coal. Last winter while Berliners were shivering in their apartments, coal was sprinkled on the streets of other cities to prevent...
...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...
...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...
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...
...last week Nazi Labor Front Leader Robert Ley, master of Strength through Joy, described Adolf Hitler's still greater project: Joy through Blasting & Bombing...