Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unabashed, a newshawk chirped, "Is your hat in the ring...
...with a brass band serenade, for it was his wedding morn. As every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home...
Nazi Göring is Premier of Prussia, German Air Minister, Master of the Hunt, Chief Forester, General of Aviation and dread Chief of the Secret Political Police. It was he who ordered shot during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9) the only man for whom Adolf Hitler had acted as best man since his rise to power, Berlin Storm Troop Leader Karl Ernst. Last week the Realmleader was going to be best man for Göring...
Sonnemannstrasse was named long years ago for the Jewish founder of the Frankfurter Zeitung. Last week General Göring was about to marry Actress Emmy Sonnemann. Whatever she is, she does not look Jewish. During the War she clerked in a Hamburg candy shop. Göring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille. Three years ago Emmy was introduced to Hermann by Adolf...
Says she: "I fell in love with him at first sight." As Premier of Prussia he controls the State Theatre for which she acted. "I decide whether a player is Jewish or not!" he has boasted. Deciding he loved Emmy, Premier Göring created for her the title "State Actress," equivalent to prima donna assoluta...