Word: oberster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fats are essential in the human diet, but butter is "the luxury fat," and the attitude of each Great Power on the issue of butter was becoming last week vitally significant. Ministerpräsident General-Oberst Hermann Wilhelm Göring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...
...weighing Eden-on-butter against Göring-on-butter, neutral observers did not forget that the British Captain consistently weighs about 152 lb., while the German General-Oberst has dieted down in recent months some 25 lb. to about...
...splendiferous arrival in Rome was made last week by Ministerpräsident General-Oberst. In stature Mussolini is definitely a small man and Italians were surprised that Göring did not turn out to be larger-they had expected a bulging Gargantua in corsets, but Göring has really trained down, and Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed...
...automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored car units. Without special permission he had visited Berlin on leave. It was charged that he sold his secrets to a mysterious German known as Otto Waldemar Obst. Major Shapcott pointed out that Obst sounds like Oberst which means Colonel. (That Obst means "fruit" was not brought for-ward.) For these secrets it was charged that Baillie-Stewart received two letters signed "Marie Louise," one containing ten ?5 notes, the other four ?10 notes...
Standing on his dignity. Dr. Hugenberg refused to meet Oberst Goring, said he would meet Leader Hitler. This was no mean concession. Up to last week the Hugenberg Press had been flaying the Nazis, calling Herr Hitler names...