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...army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels in 1932: "The whole National Socialist movement is only a lasting appeal to all that is worst...
Leopold Ullstein, a Jewish paper dealer, had started the company in 1877 when he bought the money-losing Neue Berliner Tageblatt (circ. 4,000). He put it on its feet, bought other moribund newspapers and kept expanding. After his death in 1899, his five sons-Hans, Louis, Franz, Rudolf, Hermann-proved equally shrewd, expanded more. They made one big mistake: they thought Adolf Hitler's Jew-baiting was merely campaign oratory. When they still had time to turn the tremendous power of their newspapers and magazines against the rise of Naziism, the Ullstein brothers did nothing. When Hitler came...
...committee headed by Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, has recommended that an effort by made to revive New England's moribund textile industry. The committee's report swiftly encountered the opposition of a Yale professor who felt shaky New England firms shouldn't be sustained artificially...
...newest comic-strip character with intellectual appeal is a possum called Pogo. Born three years ago in the moribund New York Star* Pogo has multiplied himself with possumly precocity, and currently appears in 210 U.S. newspapers. Cartoonist Walt Kelly has now collected the best-known adventures of Pogo into a book which all but filled Santa's pouch with little marsupials. In fact, during the month of December, Pogo has been the fastest-selling book...
...Depression. Baker, who had been thriftily putting earnings into reserves, saw the Depression as a fine time to expand. He could not only build new plants cheaply, but buy others at bargain rates. He built and bought, trimmed his costs by constant mechanization, turned up better products, astounded the moribund building trade by selling more materials in 1930 than in 1929. He kept boosting sales throughout the Depression...