Word: superman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flaccid as a circus fat lady, but so far as the German people know he never rests from his heroic labors, dashes constantly up and down the Fatherland in multi-motored planes, never smokes and subsists wholly on fruit, vegetables, nuts, and dairy products. Last week the Vegetarian Superman flew over Poland's hated Corridor to a big cozy country house at Neudeck in East Prussia. There he gripped hands with that hearty eater of tenderloin steaks, pork sausages, pigs-knuckles and chopped raw beef & onions, President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. In a sense the meeting...
...ideals forgotten since the days of Aristotle, ideals realized by Shakespeare alone of all moderns. Goethe, Schiller, Klopstock, Germany had her great century. Then it was over. The bourgeois, the Junkers, the Army, they were the Germany of the nineteenth century. Spake Zarathustra: "Now do we desire--the Superman to live...
...harshly on his sensitive ego. After Mr. Hoover's election. President Coolidge was considerably irked by the public adulation of his successor. When a White House visitor asked him what he was going to do about Muscle Shoals President Coolidge snapped: "I'll leave that to the Superman " In retirement Citizen Coolidge was frequently reported to be getting a good deal of impish satisfaction out of President Hoover's troubles. Only once has he been inside the White House since he left...
...International bankers reversed the financial rule of the centuries and the policy became one of the lender seeking the borrower instead of the borrower seeking the lender. . . . The bankers had just one thought and that was profits. . . . The banker with money pouring in began to regard himself as a superman and soon in his egotism became convinced the Lord had endowed him with a peculiar prescience and ability which raised him into a royally created class, far more blessed by a discriminating and wise Creator. ... It is little to be wondered at if the ordinary investor approached in some trepidation...
March 2). He is accused of "incompetence, do-nothingness and reactionary stultification." Four reasons for this result are advanced: 1) The Hoover myth of a superman, built on propaganda...