Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, was recalled to Germany in 1933 by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial wizard who was then beginning to steer the Third Reich into the economics of barter dealing and autarchy. Helmuth Wohlthat quickly rose in power and position until he became Field Marshal Hermann Göring's chief foreign exchange expert. Since last year he has controlled the entire German export industry...
Storm. The Wohlthat-Hudson discussions were supposed to be secret and confidential. Dr. Wohlthat returned to Germany to report to Field Marshal Göring, but scarcely had he left before the plan-and garbled versions of it-had leaked out all over the world, much to the Secretary's annoyance and embarrassment. Early this week a sizable Parliamentary storm was coming up, and the British public, in no mood for further appeasement, was definitely angry...
Meanwhile, the German press called Sir Edmund's visit a "secret council of war" and railed against "English interference" and "blustering." More German and Polish military activity was noticeable in and around Danzig, and German Air Marshal Hermann Göring announced that this year's German air maneuvers would begin August 1, and would be held on the Netherlands frontier. Just as another warning to Poland's allies as well as to Germany that Poland would not accept a "Munich deal" over Danzig, Marshal Smigly-Rydz gave an interview to the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Parisien...
Last May Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin decreed that all Nazis except Adolf Hitler were to be addressed at party meetings and in political gatherings simply as Parteigenosse ("Party Comrade"). Thus Herman Göring, who can be called Field Marshal, Air Marshal, Minister President of Prussia, Reichsminister for Air, and Special Commissioner for the Four Year Plan, will hereafter be addressed simply as Party Comrade Göring. Führer Hitler, whose title was Der Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich) was to be called Mein Führer. While some critics...
...crowds than ever before. She was not only, in Sportswriter Joe Williams' words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon...