Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the Nazi Press all but screamed despair. "This system of treaties," said the Berliner Tageblatt, "means the attainment of French dominance over Europe with the assent of Russia and Poland." In his personal newsorgan the No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, raged against "This fad for pacts, this pactomania!" In another groaning outburst the Berliner Tageblatt declared: "Thus France has arrived at last where Clemenceau wanted...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...
...General Göring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...Before Nazidom gagged the Fatherland's jokesmiths they used to hammer out an anecdote in which Adolf Hitler, dozing at the opera, woke up to mistake a fat, gorgeously dressed Lohengrin for Göring and shouted at him: "No, Hermann! That's going...
...Reichstag, or slightly more than 1% of its membership, are known to have been shot during Chancellor Hitler's blood purge (TIME, July 9). Thanking their stars last week, the other 99% turned out to cheer him. They were under no compulsion except that Reichstag Speaker Hermann Wilhelm Göring, whose secret police did much of the shooting, announced that any Deputy who did not appear would have to produce a doctor's certificate of illness...