Word: schacht
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Died. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 93, Hitler's financial wizard in the early years; in Munich. Selected by Hitler as Finance Minister in 1933, Schacht used his genius in the financing of the Führer's rearmament program. But he broke with Hitler over the Nazi invasion of Austria and was imprisoned in 1944 as a suspected conspirator against the state. Tried by the Allies as a war criminal, he was acquitted and returned to banking...
Three years ago, Daniel Schacht, an electronics consultant, turned up outside the Houston military induction center wearing a khaki Army shirt and World War II officer's cap. Outside the center, he performed in a piece of "guerrilla theater" meant to dramatize American brutality in Viet Nam. Schacht was convicted of violating federal law that forbids wearing a distinctive part of a military uniform in theatrical productions if the role "discredits" the military. Schacht was sentenced to six months in prison and a $250 fine...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction. The Constitution's guarantee of free speech permits no double standard, wrote Justice Hugo Black; a law cannot survive that "leaves Americans free to praise the war in Viet Nam but can send persons like Schacht to prison for opposing...