Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bursting with excitement, Herr Doktor Oberbürgermeister ("Lord Mayor") Günter Riesen of Cologne buttoned himself into his sausage-tight Nazi Storm Troop uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
Meanwhile in France where the Press normally enjoys a freedom approximating liberty to libel and tempered only by the readiness of its editors to shut up if offered adequate bribes, the Government leaned over backward in solicitude for the feelings of Adolf Hitler. The Sarraut Cabinet drew a storm of French abuse upon itself by ordering gendarmes to raid the offices of Paris' potent Le Journal and seize all copies of its Sunday feature-smash entitled ''Hitler's Secret Loves'" as well as the German research material upon which this was based...
...support of Von Papen's cabinet, was that the President would allow the reestablishment of the Brown Shirts troops. These troops had been dissolved by me during the Prussian election," said Bruening, clearing up the question as to why the German President had ever allowed the return of the Storm Troopers...
...Having posed in Santa Claus costume, Capt. Musick took off with the first load of Pacific air express. After 700 miles he met a storm. True to his traditional caution, he turned about, returned to San Francisco...
...Storm Jameson has a stubborn Yorkshire temper. When she gets mad, she gets good & mad. She was horrified by the War, and when she began to realize it was probably not the last great war she would have to live through, her anger began to grow. What she felt about the situation and its prospects she told in the angriest book she has written. No Time Like the Present (TIME, June 26, 1933). Since then, the world situation has hardly changed for the better, and Storm Jameson's horrified anger has hardly cooled. Last summer it was still...