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Word: nordics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman. Indeed, due to the fact that Herr Himmler followed the romantic, mystical streak of Wotan-worship developed by old General Ludendorff, the SS has become the most elite and exotic body of cops the world has ever known. Defined as a "National Socialist soldierly order of Nordic men," the SS took many of their rules from the old Order of Teutonic Knights. Fundamental principles: loyalty, honor, courage. The SS cardinal virtue: blind obedience to orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Descendant of Nordic sea captains, big, blue-eyed Edward Nicholas became a wireless operator on Great Lakes steamers about the time radio got into the dictionary. He left the sea to manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...former assistant professor of Psychology at Chicago said that arbitrary classifications of racial types are "apart from Jewish and Nordic groups." He added; "Racial characteristics are physical attributes, and psychological differences are reflected in physical differences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Finds Yardlings Tower Over Students in Midwestern Universities | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, leader of Great Britain's black-shirted Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...carrying "to triumph the Cross of Christ" in Ethiopia. But in his sermon, published last week in Milan's Catholic daily, Italia, Cardinal Schuster denounced Mussolini's racist policy as "a kind of heresy . . . an international danger no less than that of Bolshevism itself." Said he: "This Nordic philosophy, which has become theosophy and policy at the same time, does it not perhaps constitute a forge upon which are formed the most murderous weapons for war to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican and Racism | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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