Word: plunderbund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hair-raisers among Dr. Rauschning's revelations: 1) Nazi theories are so much window-dressing for befuddling the masses: 2) Germany's real rulers, a small Nazi inner circle or "elite," have one program-power, one plan-plunder, one tactic-terror; 3) this inner plunderbund secretly laughs at Nazi claptrap about race, blood, soil, considers Mein Kampf oldfashioned; 4) they plan to make Germany a base from which to conquer the world; 5) they expect a socialist "second revolution" which will destroy the last remnants of Christianity, individual freedom, reduce the German people to collective serfdom...
...things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...
Running hot in the foreground, as would be expected, were the Hearst newshounds. To the Hearst Press the House of Morgan is the "Plunderbund," the quintessence of all that Hearst has taught "People Who Think" to regard as wicked. Not only regular newshawks but Hearst financial editors and feature writers like Damon Runyon and Ed Hill (see p. 40) were sent to Washington. The New York Journal shrieked: REVEAL MORGAN RULES INDUSTRY. In a page-wide strip of Morgan pictures in the Journal the banker's mustache was obviously painted out to give him a long, flaccid upper...
...circulated a composite picture (see cut) showing Banker Morgan without glasses. dressed in a business suit, with hands clasped instead of holding manuscript. Hearstpapers, which have been hammering "the international bankers," derided the broadcast with an editorial in Publisher Hearst's best style, but unsigned, referring to "Jonn Plunderbund Morgan...