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...social significance." Wrote she to Author Hobson: "It preaches the only important moral, social and economic lesson, namely: that too much of a good thing is too much. Only think how well off Mr. Hitler would have been if he had been satisfied with a dachshund and a Pomeranian, but no, he also had to have a Scotty and a great Dane, and I give you my word, if we are not careful, he is going to go after a Mexican hairless. And with them all on the lead he is going to be exactly like Mikey-praying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Dogs and Democracy | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...busy practicing parachute landings in Pomeranian potato fields, scowling, 35-year-old former World's Champion Max Schmeling turned down the challenge of Vienna's Heinz Lazek to defend his heavyweight championship of the Axis. Declared blonde Anny Ondra, his actress wife: "Max will fight soon-but not in the boxing ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler's blueprints for the Polish push were complete and Falkenhorst was given the job of raising and organizing, from scratch, an entire new division (32nd Infantry) with headquarters in the hick town of Köslin on the Pomeranian plain. Cheerfully he moved his wife and two daughters to their first real home after years of nomadic army life: an old castle just off the Köslin market place. He added municipal cares to his army work, became a military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Dardanelles Campaign for attacking Germany from the rear. They were drafted by John Arbuthnot, Admiral Baron Fisher of Kilverstone who proposed a fleet of 612 shallow-draft boats, mostly transports, which would transit the Baltic approaches at whatever cost and land Russian troops picked up at Riga, on the Pomeranian Coast. The transports' passage around Denmark would be protected by the British Fleet's engaging the German Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...himself useful stealing clothes for Stowaway Crosby but rouses suspicion when he uses his machine gun to win a trapshooting contest. Since the passport Ruggles has loaned Crosby belonged to Public Enemy No. 1, wanted for electrocution, Crosby has to have a beard, which he obtains by clipping a Pomeranian. Something about him after that makes him of interest to all the dogs on board, including a huge hound which licks off the beard. Also aboard is Ethel Merman, who sings the same songs she sang in the stage show and denounces Crosby for leading her on: "You never even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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