Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman, a U. S. tenor under contract to the Berlin Staatsoper, to decline his invitation to Salzburg, he angrily pointed to his U. S. citizenship, entrained for Austria anyhow...
Results Analyzed. Though all observers agreed that Hamburg had given Hitler one of the major ovations of his life, Hamburg voted less than 4 to i for Hitler, lowest majority of any great city in the Reich. Berlin also was far below the national average, voted 5 to 1. Leader Hitler made his best showing in the rural regions of East Prussia, Pomerania and Franconia...
...First?the greatness of the deceased has given to the title of Reich President unique and non-recurring significance according to the feeling of all of us, and, in what it meant to us. this title is indissolubly bound up with the name of the great deceased. I therefore request care be taken in official and unofficial communications to address me just as heretofore, as Führer [Leader] and Reichskanzler only. This stipulation is to be observed in the future also...
...Second?I desire that the vesting in my person, and thereby in the Reich Chancellor's office as such, of the functions of the former Reich Presidency, decided upon by the Cabinet and constitutionally valid, shall receive the expressed sanction of the German people...
Then came the hoarse little housepainter, the rise of the Third Reich, the triumph of Nazi ideology. The word once to be found only in musty lexicons screamed from every morning's newspaper. If the scientific underpinnings of Aryanism were flimsy, the fact was obscured in the dust of marching feet, the blare of bands, the drip of blood...