Word: bund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Submitted as evidence in the Manhattan trial of Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund, was a letter from Presidential Aspirant Tom Dewey (see col. 1), in which he remarked that for Fritz Kuhn "the ashcan is the best place." The jury, after eight and a half hours of argument over whether or not Fritz Kuhn was guilty of stealing from his Bund funds, agreed with Mr. Dewey...
...YORK-Fuchrer Fritz Kuhn, who made merry with funds of the German-American Bund, was sentenced today to 2 1/2 to 5 years imprisonment in Sing Sing as "an ordinary small-time forger and thief," at a hearing which forecast perjury charges against other Bund officials who justified...
...listened to the story of how the U. S. looked to a man who loved his Führer and thought the Jews were everywhere. They had heard how Fritz Kuhn had been arrested, not for his beliefs, but on a charge of forgery and theft from his own Bund. They heard young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking $717.02 to pay for the shipment of a woman's furniture-not his wife's. They heard the judge ask: "Was she your mistress?" and they heard Fritz...
...defense scored heavily; the prosecution's auditor admitted an error in calculations of the alleged thefts; all but five charges against Fritz Kuhn were dismissed. The jury heard Bund members testify that under the "leader principle" Kuhn could spend the money any way he liked-but not on a woman, said one Bundster, either vacillating or jealous. They heard Tom Dewey, summoned as a defense witness by Kuhn's lawyers, who hoped to show that malicious prejudice brought about their client's indictment. Said Dewey, asked if he hated the Bund: "It is really very difficult...
...open letter in Social Justice last week, Father Coughlin said that 90% of the Christian Mobilizers were "fine people," but its leadership was allied with the Bund. Therefore, said he, ''as much as I need $128," he was returning a check for that sum which had been raised for him by Christian Mobilizers in The Bronx...