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...every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany. Sermonlike, his pamphlets all have lengthy titles impressive to yokels, such as A New Aristocracy, But Of The Blood And The Soil and The Peasantry As The Living Spring Of The Nordic Race. With Herr Darré in the saddle last week Old Paul's Junker friends seemed doomed. Agriculture was only half of Dr. Hugenberg's Ministry. Economics, the other half. Chancellor Hitler split off last week and placed in charge of a steady-going German insurance tycoon, Dr. Kurt Schmitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: WE DEMAND! | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...peppy was Sandy and his band. While scientific tests may show that colored children have no more rhythm than their white school-mates there can be on possible dispute that the actors and actresses in "Hi-de-ho" achieve an ecstatic chaos of the human body that defies the Nordic...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/20/1933 | See Source »

Actually, Mary Alice Hearrell Murray is seven-eighths white, one-eighth Indian and she would be better described as a quiet, Nordic type, for her eyes are blue and her skin is light. As for her Chickasaw blood, she, like all Chickasaws, is proud of it and she would be proud to possess more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1932 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...Rear Admiral Shiosawa remained in official command of the First Fleet, stationed at Shanghai, but Vice Admiral Nomura, higher ranking officer, arrived from Sasebo Naval Base as a sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During the War he was Japanese naval attache at Washington. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Arms Conference, and he brought a Japanese squadron to New York in 1929. His arrival at Shanghai was quite a social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Holding On | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Senores los Diputados were a little uncertain what they should wear on this memorable occasion; costumes varied from full evening dress, frock coats, dinner jackets to sack suits. Just before the Presidential Promise was administered occurred one of those little contretemps so distressing to orderly Nordic minds. The shrill voice of Senora Alcala Zamora rose in loud lament in the lobby: "But I tell you Niceto forgot and went off with my tickets in his pockets!" Generals rushed to the rescue. Breathing hard. Senora Alcala Zamora eventually found a seat in the press gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: First President | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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