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...teaching concepts, elaborated his educational philosophy thus: History: It wouldn't do, would it, to tell a boy of eight, nine or ten all the facts in the life of his own father? Then why get so confidential with him about historical characters? George Washington swore like a trooper. All right. Teach it to the children. But-wait until they're old enough to understand. Then it will increase their respect. Then they will say, "Gee, he was a regular guy!" Economics: No pupil hereafter must leave the high schools of New York unable to understand the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campbell for O'Shea | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...suppress first the Communist Party and later all others except his own? In Berlin last week General Göring, famed for his dashing appearances at Nazi rallies in swank uniforms created by himself, chose to appear before the Supreme Court in the unadorned brown of a simple Storm Trooper, escorted however by six German officers in sky-blue uniforms with gleaming, clinking swords. For the occasion police guards were doubled. Into the gallery jammed Berlin's diplomatic corps (including U. S. History-Professor-Ambassador William E. Dodd) and about half the Nazi Cabinet. Except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Göring Afraid? | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...South Foxboro, Mass., Rev. Ernest A. Thorsell, whose wife and son died a year ago, found life lonely. Last week he enrolled at the Massachusetts State Police Training School, to become a State Trooper. Last Sunday he appeared in his pulpit dressed as usual. Presently he will roar up on his motorcycle, preach in a trooper's blue uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trooper | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Making clear that Prussia will ruthlessly suppress Jews, Communists or even Nazi Storm Troopers who show symptoms of disobedience. Premier Göring declared: "I have determined to intervene with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sub-Dictator | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

From a hillside near Konigsberg, East Prussia one morning last week a group of university students launched into the air a small sailplane named Loerzer of Grunau. In the cockpit sat a brown-shirted youth named Kurt Schmidt, 27, a philology student at Konigsberg and a Nazi Storm Trooper. It was a good day for a sail-fresh breezes were blowing-and Student Schmidt thought he might stay up until afternoon, so he carried a bottle of drinking water, a few slices of black bread. He sailed south along a ridge 40 mi. or so, swinging back & forth to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sailing Storm Trooper | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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