Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem. Germany was a poverty-stricken nation. She was then forbidden a military air force. When the Nazis got in power (1933), Air Minister Göring made Milch Secretary of Air Traffic. Milch called War Ace Ernst Udet away from the cinema industry and together they built a shadow Luftwaffe. Besides an Air Sport League they recruited the Flying Hitler Youth, 100,000 strong, and an Air Defense League of 11,000,000 (air-raid protection corps, mechanics and maintenance men). They put aviation into the elementary-school curriculum. They taught young Germany to fly gliders. By 1935, when...
Poised over them now is the shadow of Emilio Azcarraga, who is sure that he will soon be able to take control of their stations, add a few outlets to the network he hopes...
Pope's Shadow. New Dealers were inclined last week to shrug away these straws. They pointed out that unlike Al Smith, Franklin Roosevelt is no Roman Catholic. But, although fiery crosses crackling on lonely hilltops, and red-faced spellbinders warning that the Pope was on his way to the White House played their part in the 1928 election, other things helped to defeat Smith: many a Southern voter turned thumbs down on liquor, on Tammany, on Manhattan's East Side, on New York City domination in general. The States that went for Hoover in 1928 were...
...ministry, looks like a Westerner's idea of a typical Yale boy. His percussion group is made up of pupils from the Mills summer session, where he teaches, but there are exceptions: suitcase-slapping Russell, a hot-jazz authority, composer and member of the Red Gate Chinese Shadow Players; Lou Harrison, 23-year-old composer and Mills faculty member; Russian-born Xenia Cage, his wife. Asked how long they had been wed, Cage quipped: "Five years, but I didn't begin practicing percussion on her until after we married...
...last week Managing Editor Douglas DeVeny Martin answered his telephone, heard an irate subscriber shout something about a picture of Franklin Roosevelt wearing a Hitler mustache. Mystified, Editor Martin looked over that day's editions, found a wirephoto of the President with a vague shadow on his upper lip that might have been mistaken for a penciled imitation of the Nazi Führer's brush...