Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three years of political ups-&-downs, Adolf Hitler at last sat atop the German Totalitarian State, but Hitler lost Man of the Year stature as the result of the wave of international resentment and boycott he fomented by his hysterical anti-Semitic campaign. And Hitlerism had yet to lift Germany from its economic trough. Possibly Italy's Benito Mussolini will be 1934 Man of the Year when his new Corporative State begins to show results...
...back firing like a machine gun, slithered Flying Officer F. Smith's plane, falling directly toward the Palace. To Airman Smith the royal standard fluttering on Buckingham's staff showed that the King-Emperor was in residence. By desperate maneuvers Flying Officer Smith was barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff by inches as spectators screamed and scattered. "God save the King!" gasped a pink-cheeked old lady in a black bonnet as Air man Smith disappeared, his backfiring motor carrying him over Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde...
...regulation. He was only one of five candidates for the top post of Director of Aeronautics which replaced the Assistant Secretaryship for Aeronautics. Most of his rivals had red-hot political supporters working for them. But Senator Gore, his father-in-law, did not, as many supposed, lift a finger to help him. Gene Vidal was less astonished than his competitors when the final appointment came through...
...just a rumor like other rumors and without any foundation. Besides, had foreign bankers meant to keep German workers subjugated by financing the Hitler Revolution, this would indeed betray an extremely poor judgment. Hitler's aim in by no means to subjugate the German workman, but to lift him to his proper-position within the larger community of the German people. Hitler feels himself personally much nearer to the German workman and peasant than to any other part of the German people. He is even quite often called not Reichskanzler, Chancellor of the Reich, but Volkskanzler, Chancellor of the People...
Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must...