Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army in the world. . . . Geneva no longer exists! . . . Germany is again the centre of the world." Nürnberg this week is again the centre of Germany. Each year the swarms of arriving Germans are solemnly given by the Nazi Party, for the better ordering of their emotions, a "Theme." In 1933 the first Parteitag Theme was VICTORY. Next year it was WILL, then FREEDOM, next HONOR and last year LABOR. This week the Theme for Herr Hitler, Frau Ludendorff and all other Germans is GROSSDEUTCHER REICH (Greater Germany...
LAMBETH WALK (Duke Ellington; Brunswick). Theme song of the 1938 summer dance madness, doubtless played more interestingly than it ever was at its point of origin, London...
...House Committee on Un-American Activities headed by ham-handed Representative Martin Dies of Texas, after hearings in Washington which revealed it as nothing but an ill-planned, amateurish Red-hunt, last week heard some news of fascist propaganda but soon got back to its Red theme. From the testimony of Joseph B. Matthews, onetime head of the League Against War & Fascism (now League for Peace & Democracy), the Committee learned that "the Communist Party relies heavily upon the carelessness or indifference of thousands of prominent citizens in lending their names for its propaganda purposes. For example, the French newspaper...
Solidarity Forever is the theme song but far from the theme of the United Automobile Workers. C. I. O.'s third largest union* and most obstreperous problem child. Last week Solidarity Forever boomed from the throats of 1,000 U. A. W. men convoked in rump convention at Toledo by the supporters of the five U. A. W. officials who were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch...
...called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses (who, thinks Freud, was Egyptian, not Jewish); his theme, that the Bible is an unconscious expression of man's own fears and aspirations. (This thesis he first broached 25 years ago in Totem and Taboo, one of the six major works included in the Modern Library Giant.) Freud calls his prospective book one of his most important, expects...