Word: bund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific Coast Longshoremen, who is under Federal indictment for using improper methods in obtaining citizenship in 1945. At that time the government tried to deport Bridges, but the Supreme Court found that the District Attorney did not prove his accusation--Bridges was not a Communist. Two former German Bund leaders, Fritz Kuhn, and August Klaprott, and one of Al Capone's old assistants, Anthony Volpe, may also have their cases reviewed this session. Though the Court crossed the case of Gerhardt Eisler off its agenda in June, it must also do something about the "Number One U. S. Communist...
...only English-language newspaper left in Shanghai, of the four flourishing when the Communists took over, is the British-owned, 99-year-old North China Daily News. Last week the Communists banned distribution of news by foreign news agencies, left "the Old Lady of the Bund" with little news to print...
Carter added some blunt observations of his own: "There is actually more [racial and religious hatred] in the North than in the South . .. We never had a Bund or a Christian Front in the South ... I am ashamed of the discrimination which the Negro suffers in the South . . . But [we don't] pretend that it doesn't exist. That pretense is assiduously practiced in the North . . . The North has almost a monopoly on neurotics . . . dipsomaniacs, abnormal sex delinquents, divorced couples, Communists, crime-comics readers, [and] gin-rummy addicts...
...Reds moved as quietly as they could. In small groups they advanced slowly down the sidewalks of Avenue Joffre and Great Western Road, sidling close to buildings for protection against occasional fire from isolated Nationalist snipers. By 9 a.m. they had reached the city's skyscraper-lined Bund...
...Communists, eager to get business started again, asked the American-owned Shanghai Power Co. to keep the doors of its collection office open even though one corner of the building was still in the line of fire of a few Nationalist snipers still fighting from the buildings along the Bund and Soochow Creek. On the third day of Communist rule, 300 truckloads of political workers and takeover officials chugged into Shanghai. One group, responsible for industry, trade, finance, postal services and telecommunications, set up offices in the Pacific Hotel. The halls of the hotel quickly filled with brisk, businesslike young...