Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people. Just as the Strength Through Joy automobile, for which Germanshad paid installments for nearly two years against indefinite future delivery, was junked in favor of the less joyful tank and airplane, so last week was scrapped a grandiose plan for old-age pensions. Adolf Hitler gave Dr. Robert Ley, head of the Labor Front, administration of the pension plan as a present on Dr. Ley's 50th birthday last February. Last week Dr. Ley let it be known that the plan would be shelved until after...
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...
...Robert Ley, Nazi Labor Front leader, cribbed a few words from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, stole a sentence from Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried and made a speech last week. Right in line with the Nazis' new face-Lefting, Dr. Ley cried...
...Ley, who represents the extreme "Socialist" element of National Socialism and who talks all the time, was only continuing his week-old speaking tour to explain the Nazis' "social revolution" to German industrial workers. Same week Field Marshal Hermann Goring, on the other hand, who is more nationalist than socialist and who for a Nazi speaks very little, made his first public speech since last September. And he acted as if he still had faith in the profit system...
...Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley began a speaking tour of German industrial areas to explain the "revolution" to the workers. Before he left Berlin he published in the Goebbels newsorgan Der Angriff words that could easily have originated in Moscow...