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...shall be unlawful for any person engaged in interstate or foreign commerce ... to have in his employ any alien, Communist or member of any Nazi bund organization. ..." Maximum penalty on employers: $10,000 fine; five years' imprisonment...
...unit" within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, put stern, jut-jawed Veteran Agent Hugh H. Clegg in charge. Jackson also recommended legislation to require the registration of all firearms. > The Civil Service Commission announced it would no longer certify for employment proven members of "the Communist Party, the German Bund, or any other Communist or Nazi organization...
City of unorthodox booms is Shanghai, a paradise of moneychangers and middlemen. Throughout Depression I Shanghai built itself the tallest buildings outside the Americas, tripled land values on its river-washed Bund (the International Settlement's downtown) in seven years. Last year, its suburbs full of Japanese soldiers, Shanghai started another and less healthy boom, still booming. Factories, upcountry traders, panicky Chinese moved into the International Settlement for safety. Since no passport control blocks entry to the Settlement, refugees from all the world's political hotspots fled there-Czechs, Poles, German and Austrian Jews. Country View Apartments, aptly...
...this young German emigre's novel is a young German emigre, his wife, a Vermont girl, the-setting. Manhattan's Yorkville (German district) and an upstate farm. Central theme is the couple's slow, half-reluctant maturing through marriage and child-begetting. Complications are local Bund-boys, the young man's abortive infidelities, his gradual adjustment to a new country. Stringent in style, sensitive in its perceptions it is the work of a somewhat oldfashioned, gently talented German romantic poet, nicely translated...
...German propaganda includes leaflets issued in several languages by the Deutscher Fichte-Bund, in Hamburg, and mailed to the United States via Siberia, and a German pamphlet, in English, criticizing the methods of growth of the British Empire...