Word: bunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis sedition trials are being prosecuted is because they are Leftish in their leanings. Such a situation is far from improbable. Yet if it is actually the right of free speech that the HLU is defending, why are they not crying out against the suppression of the Bund and various pro-fascist groups? As far as the theory of the right of free speech is concerned, the two cases are identical; there is a difference only in what the Bund and the Socialist Workers Party say in their respective pamphlets and fulminations. If the HLU defends the latter...
Shanghai last week was no longer a city of easygoing riches and casual luxury. The Cathay, the smartest hotel on the Bund, into which Sir Victor Sassoon sank some of his Indian millions, was reduced to rationing its guests to two bath towels a week. Outside the Settlement, the Japanese guarded barbed-wire barricades, strong-armed any passer-by who they felt might be a Chinese "terrorist...
...Dumped into a Seattle depository was an aluminum plaque of Adolf Hitler. A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937." In Kansas City: a miniature hatchet, bearing the profile of George Washington...
...several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose tiptoe trail zigzagged from Vienna to New York...
...Austria received guests in Hollywood, seated on a golden throne at last-a prop one borrowed from the M.G.M. warehouse. Ex-Bundführer Fritz Kuhn, now convict 26558, was refused a parole at Dannemora, where he is serving two and one-half to five years for stealing Bund funds. Despite good behavior, the board decided he was "a hazard, to the public peace." Red-haired Annelise Thomsen, wife of the Nazi Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly...