Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talks with Sir Nevile Henderson and French Ambassador Robert Coulondre suggested even stranger reasons. He had said that he must accomplish his mission in Europe within 24 months because "I have other work to perform." To Sir Nevile, Hitler was quoted as having said: ''All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils. I am tired of politics, and as soon as I have carried out my program for Germany I shall take up my painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists...
...Adolf Hitler. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he rewarded Stooge Lammers with the job of Undersecretary of the Chancellery. Author of many fat books on legal questions, Dr. Lammers produced the legal opinion which, after Paul von Hindenburg's death in 1934, made Hitler dictator for life...
...women, children of all walks of life took spades in hand and dug 13 miles of zigzag trenches in parks, playgrounds, lawns, vacant lots. The rich rode in limousines to shady Lazienki Park, were bowed out by chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers...
Leaders. Poland is the amoeba of Europe. Since the Tenth Century the rhythm of its life has been grow, divide, grow, divide. The very first king to give Poland substantial nationhood (Boleslav, the Wry-mouthed, 1086-1139) split his inheritance between four sons. And the most recent man to contribute to Polish statehood, Marshal Pilsudski, similarly divided his power (though not his land) among three favorites...
...lives a life of almost ascetic simplicity, smokes the cheapest cigarets; lives in a quiet eight-room apartment decorated with old porcelain, with crystal and with Renaissance, 19th Century French and Smigly-Rydz oils; never wears more than one medal; rides early each morning; likes to stay at home with his charming, quiet wife, who does her own cooking and thinks the wives of Messrs. Beck and Moscicki are chronic climbers...