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...Weimar Republic fell. In the Nazi-packed Reichstag, on March 23, 1933, Hitler called for the Enabling Act, which emasculated the German Constitution, took the ground from under the feet of opposition parties. Tall, husky, greying Otto Wels, president of the Social Democratic Party, strode to the dais to protest the bill. "We are defenseless, but not without honor!" he cried. "If you really wanted social reconstruction, you would need no such bill as this!" Hitler spoke next: "You're too late! We don't need you any longer!" The bill was passed...
Appeasement's Food. As they had in Germany, so the Nazis strode to power in Europe. In February 1938 Hitler purged his generals' ranks, took over supreme command of the fighting forces, welded diplomacy and military might to Nazi policy. Six weeks later Austria was annexed. The next summer Nazi fury was unleashed in Czecho-Slovakia; in September Munich gave away the Sudetenland. Back to London went Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving a scrap of paper, croaking "peace in our time...
...Packard and drove to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. There he encased himself in the beard and trappings of an ancient czar. Exactly one hour after his arrival, Ezio Pinza, with a regal bearing that scattered stagehands right & left, stubbed out the butt of a lighted cigaret and strode through the wings as Boris Godunoff...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...
...couple of months ago a wiry, bristly man with large ears and a happy Irish face strode into the editorial offices of the New York Sun and asked for a job. The Sun's executives snapped the applicant up. He was mnemonic John Kieran, for 16 years sports columnist for the New York Times, for four and a half years a Shakespeare quoter, birdlore expert, Latin scholar, jingle singer and general know-it-all of Information, Please...