Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fewer hours, ate heavily into the Thyssen profits. Depression began, and not only did Herr Thyssen see that the "Socialists are our great enemies," but he also saw the need for an armaments race if his business was to be saved. About that time he became the first big industrialist to believe that a young, up-&-coming agitator named Adolf Hitler was fundamentally safe & sound for Big Business, that the National Socialism which Herr Hitler preached would freeze the status quo, protect the haves from the havenots...
Then the rosy picture began to fade. The State began to interfere more & more with Big Business, to bear down on profits and increase taxes. Two years ago the Ruhr industrialist complained of being followed, of having his telephone tapped and his mail opened by the Gestapo. A long trip to South America followed, after which matters were patched up for a time. But no one could have been more dismayed or surprised by the Nazi-Communist Pact than Fritz Thyssen, die-hard hater of Socialism. Last summer Herr Thyssen warned the Nazis against going to war. A few weeks...
Last week the No. 1 German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who in early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself in timely and emphatic fashion against the war and the present policy of the Reich Government. This political attitude threatened to cause consequences which forced me to leave Germany...
...Many an industrialist and executive applauded these words-but not all. Potent Powerman Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern) proceeded to hop on Mr. Dies with both feet. Mr. Willkie observed that when Congressional committees were harrying him and his fellow businessmen, he had kept mum lest he be accused of self-interest. But, said he, "Obviously the men under investigation now [by Dies] are men of completely contrary belief to mine. . . . The democratic process cannot go on and will be gradually undermined if men can be put on the witness stand without protection of counsel and without any adequate opportunity...
Buzzing again at His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons last week was that busy Ipswich gadfly Richard Stokes. A wealthy industrialist turned...