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Word: bunds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only are the Cambridge police bothered these days by teen-age delinquency, hoodlumism, vandalism and fallen arches, but now, worse than over, a band of foreign conspirators, a sort of Bund, is growing up around the Business School, latest reports show. The new group, all in uniform, are called the "Black Ties" and are led by a domineering little man named Tito Bizal. At various hours of the day their haunting battle song sweeps up through the Square, and the green statute of Jawn Harvard gets greener as it hears...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

...Dilling looked coldly at her codefendant, peppery Mrs. Lois de Lafayette ("T.N.T.") Washburn, who favored delighted photographers with a stiff-armed Nazi salute. Florid, convivial Edward James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Curtain Rise | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...pretty straight thinking about the war and about international politics; a lot straighter thinking, certainly, than Paramount's director, Sam Wood, who diluted "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; and straighter thinking, too, than the MPA (Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals--also called the Motion Picture Bund, the Brain Storm Bund, and others unprintable) which attacked Warners' "Mission to Moscow" as "Red" and "fourth term" propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/28/1944 | See Source »

...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents and Vipers | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...organized in 1936 as the Anti-Communist Center by Nazi Agent Oscar Hellmuth Schreiter, and from the outset trained semi-militarized shock troops under Spanish Falangists; >Maintained direct contact with the Fichte Bund in Hamburg until the outbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Mexican Blackshirts | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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