Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance at the parish. Just out of seminary, he took over at $35 per month, increased the congregation to 500. On a visit to Washington's National Cathedral, he saw what a drawing card the tomb of Woodrow Wilson was. Father (because high church) Danforth resolved to obtain some popular Chicago dust-that of Eugene Field, buried in Graceland Cemetery...
...would be idle to deny the great achievements of the man who restored to the German nation its self-respect and its disciplined orderliness. The tyrannical methods which were employed within Germany itself to obtain this result were detestable, but were Germany's own concern. Many of Herr Hitler's social reforms, in spite of their complete disregard of personal liberty of thought, word or deed, were on highly advanced democratic lines. The 'Strength through Joy' movement, the care for the physical fitness of the nation, and, above all, the organisation of the Labor Camps...
...There were, in fact, for Herr Hitler only two solutions: The use of force, or the achievement of his aims by the display of force. 'If you wish to obtain your objective by force, you must be strong; if you wish to obtain them by negotiation, you must be stronger still.' That was a remark which he made to a foreign statesman who visited him this year, and it expresses in the concisest possible form the Hitler technique...
...arbitrarily from the free governments all possibilities of obtaining such supplies as it has been hitherto customary for belligerents to obtain from neutrals in time...
Free tickets must be secured in advance by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Open Nights, Harvard Observatory, Garden street, Cambridge. Each applicant may obtain seats at only one of the programs...