Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentleman of 80, himself close to death-President Paul von Beneckendorff & von Hindenburg. "He called the Cabinet his General Staff, and the Chancellor his Chief of Staff," but "cooperated with Parliament in the manner of an old gentleman who likes order in his household." By virtue of Paragraph 48 of the Weimar Constitution, his chancellor could issue decrees "on the sole sanction of the President's signature." If the Reichstag objected, the President could send it home...
...testified by almost every paragraph and page of "My New Order," Hitler is first, last, and always a nationalist. Yet his patriotism is not an ennobling devotion, but a hideous, unilateral, exclusive thing which makes of faith a disease. Every moral rule, every conception of justice, every instinct of tolerance has been whittled and twisted by his virulent mind to fit not humans everywhere, but the Germans alone. And when principle stops at national boundaries, only force reaches out beyond. Hitler's fanatic nationalism explains the unending lies and invectives with which his speeches groan...
...decisions, prefers to ad lib them from the bench. With an occasional glance at his foolscap notes, he spoke for five days in a row last week, had another four or five days to go. His high-pitched emphases and muttered diminuendos even included instructions to the stenographers: "period, paragraph . . . quote, parenthesis . . . unquote." His whole audience was fascinated by his virtuoso command of the case. But only the Alcoa men were pleased...
...DELEGATE TO WILLIAMSTOWN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS I REGRET MISLEADING IMPRESSION CREATED IN OPENING PARAGRAPH OF OTHERWISE FINE REPORT. YOUR ARTICLE SAID NEW HIGH IN RELIGIOUS INTERVENTIONISM WAS SET BY INSTITUTE AND THAT A BALLOT MIGHT HAVE REVEALED AN ACTUAL MAJORITY FOR A SHOOTING WAR NOW. MY OBSERVATION WAS THAT THE INSTITUTE SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS COMPRISED ALL SHADES OF OPINION-INTERVENTIONISTS, ISOLATIONISTS, PACIFISTS, NONPACIFISTS -A FAIR SAMPLING OF ALL POSITIONS HELD BY AMERICANS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHETHER AN ACTUAL MAJORITY COULD HAVE BEEN MARSHALED FOR AN IMMEDIATE DECLARATION...
...Schwarze Korps, organ of the Black Shirts, published this revealing paragraph, showing how Hitler's crusade has backfired: "It is absolutely wrong to assume that Germany is fighting Russia to liberate Europe from Bolshevism. . . . We are fighting, not to save culture, civilization or democracy, but merely to save Germany...