Word: bund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Nazis would not allow him to plead because he was a Jew, Hays appeared in court and helped to defend the Bulgarian Communist, Georgy Dimitrov, in the Reichstag fire trial, and much later he spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business...
...began on a June morning in Shanghai in 1932. I was then a correspondent for the United Press. In front of the North China Daily News Building on the Bund I ran into one of TIME's editors, who was on a trip through China. In the course of our chat he became interested in an extracurricular activity of mine, which was managing the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club, the oldest U.S. organization in Shanghai. The club was originally formed in 1865, and it frequently played the Presbyterian Mission at Sungkiang, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tang...
Anyone who happens to be a member of the Austro-American Bund should certainly enjoy April 1, 2000, now at the Brattle. It is a magnificent propaganda piece, in its way the equal of Potiemkin and Alexander Nievsky, calling for the end of occupation in Austria...
...embarrassed and humiliated Wisconsin Republican, I have news for the attending fanatics at the testimonial dinner for Roy Cohn: that was a McCarthy rally of the newborn "Joe-Bund." Everyone in attendance should be promptly investigated to see if he meets the strict requirements of the new party ... If you don't have a strong stomach and an empty head, you may prove to be a bad risk...
...former lawyer dropped a footnote on Fritz Kuhn, the Gauleiter of the German-American Bund, who was kicked out of the U.S. in 1945 after 17 years' residence: unmourned, unknown and broke, Kuhn died Nov. 14, 1951, of a heart attack, in a Munich hospital...