Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schmitt is well known to favor devaluation of the German mark by 20%. The staggering powers slipped into his hands last week resemble those granted by the U. S. Congress to Franklin Roosevelt, some of which the President has of course not used. Tight-lipped Tsar Schmitt gave no sign of how he may use his powers, but Adolf Hitler was seen to have created a nearly perfect engine of economic despotism. Thus far in economics he has been largely windbag. From now on German Big Industry-the Thyssens, Krupps, Siemenses and their ilk-are in a position to receive...
Month of Truce. Under the fateful Enabling Act (TIME, April 3. 1933) signed by Paul von Hindenburg after he made Adolf Hitler his Chancellor, the President's signature is no longer needed to validate even such Cabinet acts as that which last week created the Economic Tsar...
...Economic Tsar. Behind the Storm Troop mutiny of last fortnight lay deep-rooted discontent and some of it was economic. Germany faces, due to drought, what may be her poorest harvest in years. Potatoes had tripled in price. Meat was ominously cheap as cattle which now cost too much to feed were rashly slaughtered. Next winter, as Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg well know, the German people must go back to eating what they hate- substitute foods...
...Chancellor by an abrupt decree widened the powers of Economics Minister Dr. Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures...
...Ordnung muss sein! We must have order!" But who is to bring order out of Germany's political and economic chaos? Last week Adolf Hitler, seven days after he had sent some of his closest political henchmen to Death and two days after he had made an Economic Tsar, suddenly left Berlin by plane for the Bavarian Alps "to draw from Nature further inspiration." In Berlin his party henchmen declared blankly, "July will be a month of truce. Also no more Cabinet meetings are scheduled for July." An inspiration. widely published by the official Press, exhorted all unmarried...