Word: hitleritis
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Calvin Coolidge died. John Patrick O'Brien became Mayor of New York City. The Japanese quit the League of Nations over Manchuria. Germany fell under Adolf Hitler's sway. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the U. S. The U. S. went off the gold standard. Beer came back. And still the National Diversified Corp. fraud trial ran on & on in Manhattan Federal Court...
Sure that it knew best how to manage German business, one of the first steps of the Hitler Government was to poke into hundreds of the Fatherland's leading industries a Nazi busybody called a "commissar...
...week he withdrew support from Germany's most pampered class-his closest friends and neighbors, the East Prussian Junkers (landed proprietors). The Junkers, sunk as a class in debt, have clung to their lands for years through special Government grants of credit and decrees to block foreclosure. Chancellor Hitler appointed as Minister of Agriculture a Nazi famed as "The Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany. Sermonlike, his pamphlets all have lengthy titles impressive to yokels, such...
...Dresden critics were not vexed that Strauss had returned to tunefulness. They have long ceased expecting any more daring and original music from the composer of Elektra and the tone-poems. Conducting the premiere was an illegitimate Habsburg, Clemens Krauss, instead of Hitler-ousted Fritz Busch...
...money to spend for paintings, Dr. Fuller showed his good sense by filling his galleries not with mediocre pictures but full-sized German color reproductions of famed European masterpieces, valued at from $10 to $25 apiece, most of them printed by the famous commercial litho graph family of Adolf Hitler's best friend, booming, excitable Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl of Munich...