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Economics where they found the Herr Reichsminister Kurt Schmitt in the correct costume for a Nazi economist : the black tunic and tight leather belt of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. "The main purpose of this reconstruction." said Minister Schmitt, "is to coordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry...
...wife is a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, his daughter is the wife of British Shipping Tycoon Lord Inchcape and his brother and heir Major Bertram Brooke is wedded to the onetime Gladys Palmer (Huntley & Palmers biscuits) who enjoys the distinction among Mohammedans of possessing the tunic of The Prophet, values...
...special inducement, all members of the Labor Front will be provided with a uniform: dark blue tunic and military cap. Added announcement: "Anybody wearing it will be quite in style at the theatre, opera, or concert. No worker need miss such entertainment any longer for lack of evening clothes...
...week. Outside a band was playing, a crowd watching the famed marionet ceremony of Changing the Palace Guard. Suddenly a skidding automobile slammed into the crowd, killed three aircraftsmen on holiday, injured five other bystanders. On the way it knocked down a stiff-standing Palace s.entry, smudging his scarlet tunic, knocking his black bearskin over...
...geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed. The number of aspirants is limited by the assurance that should they fail they face a firing squad. On the tunic of Major Fey hangs the Maria Theresa Order. He still believes in direct action. The Heimwehr is officially unarmed, but its officers carry a supple, square-edged bludgeon of raw oxhide known as an ochsenknüttel. During the great Heimwehr parade of last May, when Chancellor Dollfuss wore...