Word: bachman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lacks in political experience he makes up in genial man-to-man manner. Born of Scotch-Irish Methodist parents in Kane, Pa., McGonigle worked his way through Kane High and Temple University, was a General Foods driver-salesman until he took charge at $30 a week of the shaky Bachman Pretzel Bakery in Reading, and began rocketing its output with automatic pretzel benders and cellophane packages. Last year G.O.P. State Chairman George Bloom, trying to salvage something of the G.O.P. wreckage left by the Grundy and Fine machines, persuaded Pretzel King McGonigle to become the party's finance chairman...
East German police arrested Bachman in 1950, because of his work in a student resistance groups at an East German University. Turned over to the MVD, the Soviet secret police, he was tried by a secret tribunal, sentenced to 250 years of forced labor, and sent to a concentration camp in northern Russia...
...released with 2,000 other German prisoners in the amnesty which preceded the foreign minister's conference in early 1954," Bachman commented...
...Bachman, who was taken a job as a ticket-taker at the Stadium, met Ambassador and Mrs. Conant before sailing west. "They asked me to give their greetings to Harvard," he said...
About his trip to the United States, Bachman commented: "I came by the back door. Instead of landing in New York where most visitors go, I came to Cambridge by way of Quebec...