Word: speers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert K. Speer, stocky head of New York University's elementary education department, charged his wife, two of her friends and three private detectives with disorderly conduct. He protested that they had all piled into his hotel room crying "Where's the woman?" while he was bare as a babe. There was no woman, he said, and besides they had carried off a house dress he happened to have around. "You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves," snapped the judge. "Get out of here; get into the war effort...
...September 1942, state insurance paid to firms closed by war had reached 44 million Reichsmarks-more than double the amount paid out in 1941. A recent issue of the Essener National Zeitung (Göring's paper) announced, as evidence of the success of Industrial Dictator Albert Speer's rationalization program, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special artillery shells was reduced from 54 to 4; those manufacturing certain war-vehicle parts from 402 to 173; those making rifle bullets...
...indirect defense may be the enormous cost of Mot pulk. German infantry masses are now exposed to enemy fire as they have never been before. Already Hitler's Munitions Minister Albert Speer has called upon German manufacturers for more & more steel to fill the Russian maw. If the Allies could find any encouragement in Mot pulk, it was the indication that Hitler's generals had committed his overstrained stockpiles and factories to a new and endless race for armament...
London speculated upon both possibilities, and on still another. Perhaps the Nazis were simply getting set to ward off any Allied attempt on Norway. Although the Nazis have fortified key points from Trondheim south, northern Norway is far from impregnable. Last week, while Nazi Munitions Minister Albert Speer, successor to the late Masterbuilder Major General Fritz Todt (TIME, Feb. 16), sped work on defenses to the north, the Norwegians were tripping and clipping him with sabotage. One highly effective means was the touching off of fires in plants housing vital Nazi war industries...
...College Teachers Union's quickwitted President Robert K. Speer recited a long list of democratic achievements by his local, demanded that the council itself show cause why his local should be ousted. Instead the council held perfunctory hearings, recommended that the locals be expelled, submitted its recommendation to a referendum of the Federation's 28,000 members, to be held within three months...