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...addition, the ring sold narcotics, provided monied prisoners with clothing filched from newcomers, even had a strong voice in the granting of paroles. Divided between an Irish and an Italian gang, the hierarchy lived soft in two hospital wards, while men who should have been hospitalized-100 drug addicts, more than 100 venereal cases, 13 insane patients and one man suffering with sleeping sickness-roamed at large through the prison spreading demoralization and infection...
Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GÖring who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GÖring's desk...
Last week General GÖring was about to become an author. On the 75th birthday of Wilhelm II (see col. 2), one of Berlin's great publishing houses was to bring out I Am a Monarchist by Hermann Wilhelm GÖring. Unfortunately, No. 1 Nazi Adolf Hitler decided fortnight ago that the Party is not Monarchist (TIME, Jan. 29). Hastily Author GÖring changed the title of his book from I Am a Monarchist to The Building of a Nation. Even then its publication was delayed last week by General GÖring's keenest...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...
Three days later Chancellor Hitler was making progress in his chambers on the Wilhelmstrasse toward solution of the strife between Reichsbischof Ludwig Miller and the 7,000 Emergency Lutheran Pastors when in stormed General GÖring...