Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Doell went to the back of the house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown, his hands folded peacefully across his chest, the fingers extended. His head had been smashed by three blows. Obliterated were two sabre scars, marks of duels. He had been dead 24 hours...
That was why quiet, efficient Dr. Engelberg had not reported for work. Mr. Doell called the police. Headlines exploded: Was this an international political crime...
Late in 1918, shortly after the Armistice, a young Finn appeared in London, sought out Herbert Hoover, then chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and appealed to him for food for his starving, war-torn country. Impressed by the facts presented, Mr. Hoover not only arranged to get hold of the food, but persuaded the Allied powers to relax the blockade still being enforced in the Baltic to allow the food to be shipped in. It was a life-saver for the nation in its struggle against the Reds...
...notebooks, but do not close the joint. In the House of Commons there is mildly derisive laughter whenever His Majesty's Government is questioned about "blackout morals" and "harpy clubs" by such anxious moralists as Manchester Conservative E. L. Fleming, M. P. "I am worried about wicked women," Mr. Fleming recently observed. "Britain's young fighting men should be fit, not unfit...
...Mr. Adolf Hitler has at least partly supported Miss Eva Braun for several years, and last spring she hopefully confided to intimates she expected him to marry her within a year (TIME, May 15). In November, first pictures of "Dolfi" and "Evi" sunning themselves on the terrace at Berchtesgaden appeared in LIFE. This week Satevepost features the query Is Hitler Married? in a piece put together by Richard Norburt* from "sources inside Germany which we have always found dependable." The punch...