Word: bund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government will be formally headed by a president. Real power will rest with the chancellor (whose job corresponds to that of premier), appointed by the president and responsible to the parliament (the Bund). The lower house will be the Bundestag, with members elected by the people. The upper house will be the Bundesrat; its members will be elected by the state legislatures. The federal government has legislative power in such fields as foreign affairs and trade, currency, and certain forms of taxation. In other fields the federal and state governments share powers...
Shanghai was a city of refugees. Along the Bund and Nanking Road, the best hotels were being taken over by weary retreating troops. In the white-tiled kitchen of the Hotel Cathay the manager argued hopelessly against this intrusion. The soldiers clumped past him in full field equipment, gazed in fascination at the twinkling lights of push-button elevators, and mounted their machine guns in the Tower Room overlooking the Whangpoo River...
Deported Fritz Kuhn, 52, prewar U.S. Bundesführer, had lost some weight, but still talked as big as ever. Appealing a ten-year rap as a major Nazi offender before a court in Munich, he bellowed that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George...
...justice in the past dealt Kuhn a $10 traffic fine in Edgewater, N.J., a $5 fine for drunkenness & public profanity in Webster, Mass., a 2½-to-5-year sentence in Dannemora after he was caught with his hand in the Bund till...
...boomtown fever was not confined to the Bund and midtown shopping area. At White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies...