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...then fade out quickly join the "noncurrent" (i.e., dropped)' list. Death or conviction for a crime are automatic reasons for dropping a name, although after death the name may turn up in Who Was Who. Alger Hiss went out after he was convicted of perjury. German-American Bundsman Fritz Kuhn as well as Communist Boss William Z. Foster were knocked out for being too "notorious." No sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures that Who's Who has listed: West Point's Football Coach Earl Blaik, Gene Tunney...
...German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan. Bundsman Kunze, a native-born citizen, always listed himself as German-American, because "the blood in my veins is different." The offense charged was before Pearl Harbor-so he, too, if convicted, will escape a spy's death...
Berlin's broadcasts to the U.S. being in general too dull for any but the beeriest Bundsman, Goebbels & Co. have tried various publicity dodges (such as paying for collect cablegrams) to stir up interest. Fortnight ago CBS's short-wave listening station heard Lord Haw-Haw introduced; then a voice said, in German, "Switch that off." Later it was announced to America that Haw-Haw had been "banned from the air." But England continued to hear His Lordship on his usual schedule. Last week Lord Haw-Haw explained that he had been "banned" not by Germany...
...Bundsman Albert Zimmer of Cincinnati: "No one knows this, but we have a permanent list of silent contributors. Most of these persons are wealthy . . . so I keep a double set of books." Declared Witness Metcalfe: "It is generally understood in Bund circles that some prominent American industrialists are helping to finance the movement...
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