Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economic Tsar. Behind the Storm Troop mutiny of last fortnight lay deep-rooted discontent and some of it was economic. Germany faces, due to drought, what may be her poorest harvest in years. Potatoes had tripled in price. Meat was ominously cheap as cattle which now cost too much to feed were rashly slaughtered. Next winter, as Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg well know, the German people must go back to eating what they hate- substitute foods...
Toothsome young lambs were slaughtered by the hundreds in Ankara last week and their fresh meat sizzled on a thousand skewers as banquet followed boisterous banquet. Champagne-loving Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, high-strung and quick as a panther, was doing his best to honor the majestic Persian Dictator who styles himself the King of Kings and whose age of some 60 years is concealed by his upright military bearing, betrayed by a certain slowness of speech and gesture...
...Wilhelm II when he visited King Victor Emmanuel III in Venice just before the War. Last week His Majesty's furniture and servants sufficed without His Majesty. When Adolf Hitler, strict teetotaler and vegetarian, sat down to the official luncheon of 25 covers he alone refused wine and meat, drank water with his scrambled eggs and vegetables. After lunch Dictator and Dictator withdrew for the first of their two-man talks alone in German. Two days later the German Foreign Office experts were complaining: "The Chancellor has apparently no need of our advice. We have never had such...
...crowd of 60.000 Baer's reaction was amazing. With a blow of his right hand, which he swings as if it still held the meat axe with which he used to butcher heifers, he knocked Carnera down...
...born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched him with...