Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built in remote country locations, and equipped with Diesel power units for use in case of bombed local power lines. One function of these new transmitters may be to outshout Germany's mighty, new 500-kilowatt station, pulled out of the Nazi hat two months ago by Joseph Goebbels at Oldenburg, near the Dutch border, 30 miles from the North...
...radio-minded country. Of the estimated 1,000,000-odd-listeners to the eight-station network headed by Warsaw's SPI, perhaps one-fourth still get what they can on ancient crystal sets. Last week Polskie Radio talked bravely on, reported border incidents and the repulsing of Nazi sorties by air, played stirring martial airs between bulletins...
...Union in uncompromising pendence." support for (The their London freedom Daily and inde Worker used the same argument, even the same language, in praising Stalin's "uncompromising firmness" with Hitler.) The New Masses ran a series of parallel columns contrasting life in the Soviet Union with life in Nazi Germany...
...Walter conducting, with Lotte Lehmann, Marta Fuchs, Margaret Klose, Lauritz Melchoir and Hans Hotter; Victor: 20 sides). Austria's Anschluss in 1938 interrupted a magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile's ears burn. When the recording was issued in Germany this summer, German Wagnerphiles' ears...
...travelogue of rivers "as loud as the finale of Götterdammerung," of flora that looked "as if the florists had thrown the end of a Hutton wedding down the back-stairs," of one Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment for all members of the family...