Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Munich there was a butcher named Strauss who bought poultry from a breeder named Heinrich Himmler. Opposite the Strauss butchershop, at No. 50 Schellingstrasse, Heinrich Hoffmann owned a photographic shop; a frequent visitor was a pale man with a wispy mustache named Adolf Hitler, who wore a trench coat and nervously slapped his boots with a dog whip. A goggle-eyed witness of the spectacular rise of Hitler, Himmler & Co. was the butcher's stocky son, Franz Josef. Catching his son distributing Nazi propaganda one day, Butcher Strauss, a staunch Catholic, gave the boy a thrashing right there...
Taxes & Dividends. Before World War II, Germany had a central stock exchange in Berlin. Now there are eight independent regional exchanges-in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover and Bremen-which traded $1.5 billion worth of stocks and bonds last year v. only $200 million in 1951. Twice since 1948 Diüsseldorf's stock and bond traders have been forced to move into bigger quarters because trading has grown...
...white fringe cried. After the movie cameras had swung around, he repeated the question. McCormack continued. "Answer the man," cried a man in the first row and then another from the corner. The audience waited for an answer, so the majority leader asked if the man wanted another Munich. Two policemen walked over to the man in the third row and gave him a quick lecture before the photographers could focus. McCormack continued, "Disagree without being disagreeable...
...situation has become so bad that one Christian Democratic Deputy has proposed "measures to defend our soldiers against attack by the population." Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung editorialized wryly: "The Bundeswehr is being established for the protection of the state. Is the state now supposed to protect its soldiers against citizens...
September has been a cruel month for modern Europe. In September 1938 there was Munich. In September 1939, World War II. In September 1940, the Luftwaffe and the Battle of Britain. Now another September had come and with it talk of war and a crisis pertinent to the survival of Britain and France as great powers...