Word: mannes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Nazis v. Nazarenes. As exiled Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann said last week: "There can be no real peace between the cross and the swastika. National socialism is essentially unchristian and antichristian. . . ." Though the conflict between Christianity and Naziism seems inevitable now, it did not seem so when Hitler came into power. Catholics and Protestants alike helped his coup d'état. Martin Niemoller himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret...
...year in which established writers like Lewis, Mann, Gather, Millay, Huxley, Caldwell, Faulkner, Werfel, Farrell, O'Hara continued to pour out their hearts and more especially their words. It was the year in which Thomas Wolfe's last work was published. His book seemed less like the new start he had hoped it was than an effort to clear his desk and brain for that new start...
...BELOVED RETURNS-Thomas Mann -Knopf...
...Miami, Fla., a woman told M. C. Mann she would buy his house if he got rid of termites, recommended an "exterminator." After crawling under the porch for half an hour, the man demanded $40. Mann paid. He is still waiting for the customer...
After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann's and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...