Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime lieutenant governor. The Wilmette Temple's nine sides symbolize the world's nine chief religions, but not all Bahá'is agree as to what those religions are. Among the religious symbols in the Temple are the swastika, the circle, the triangle, the Jewish six-pointed star, the Greek and Roman Cross...
Arrogant, deceitful, a complete little Nazi, Emil flaunts his swastika, spits on the U.S., spies for the Führer, tries a divide-&-conquer technique on the house hold, plots to break up his uncle's marriage to a Jewish schoolteacher. When he almost murders his little cousin, his patient elders are ready to give up. But they ask themselves what chance there is of rehabilitating 12,000,000 kids if they can not cope with one. They do a good deal of ferreting into Emil's youthfully warped nature. Emil himself, as the curtain falls, shows signs...
Representing a more recent influence, in a luxurious office in a new, spic-&-span downtown building sits the handsome editor of El Pampero, the biggest and best Nazi newspaper outside Europe. Everywhere on his editors' and writers' tables the swastika has been industriously whittled; between sips of yerba maté he corrupts all the news he can lay his hands on. There are also the Communist La Hora, the Japanese Momenta Argentina and the British Libre Palabra. Through the distribution by various governments of free features and news, some provincial newspapers have taken .on the appearance of propaganda...
...help our readers recognize our man of the week more easily and to give them a clue as to why we had chosen him. Perhaps you remember the cover with which this idea really got started-the Christmas cover of the heroic German pastor Martin Niemoller, with the swastika and a Nazi prison camp scene on one side and the Cross and the Nativity on the other...
...They splashed at us from behind and above and whipped past so close you could have snatched the swastika from their sides. Our ship was lurching under their wallops like a beaten boxer. One shell plowed into the top turret and went off in the face of the gunner, Technical Sergeant K. R. Aulenbach of Reading, Pa. Between attacks the crew dragged him out and laid him down for first aid but he was already gone; he died soon after we landed...