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On to Potsdam! Just what kind of a man he is Chancellor Adolf Hitler amply revealed in his final Berlin campaign speech, cheered almost continuously by 20,000 frenzied Nazis packed into the vast Sportpalast. Lumping Communism. Democracy and Socialism under one head, Orator Hitler did his best to cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

1932. In his presidential study 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg disdainfully refuses 43-year-old Adolf Hitler's plea that he, as leader of the Nazi Party (largest in the Reichstag) be made Chancellor with "precisely the powers" of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 22). Less than six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Basically Hitlerism is a doctrine of confused tenets, further confused by Orator Hitler as he goes along. Take, for example, the plain, basic word capital. No thinker himself, Herr Hitler has confessed that Hitlerism's tenets about capital are borrowed from a onetime building engineer, Herr Gottfried Feder, recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Ezekiel Cheever was the Boston Public Latin School's first master. A marble slab records that "Cotton Mather, a grateful pupil, ascribed to him all New England's learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Latin Schools | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

In appearance he is short (5 ft. 6 in.), chunky (160 lb.), with a white crest above a round, deep-lined, bespectacled face. He favors brown suits with white-braided vests. Like Coolidge, he smokes cigars in paper holders. Next to Idaho's Borah, he is the Senate'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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