Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their instructors were a group of intimates: twinkling Dr. William Allan Neilson, Smith's president-emeritus, as director, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Librarian Archibald MacLeish and other White House favorites. Popular reading matter at the institute: Mein Kampf and Louis Fischer's Men and Politics. At Mrs. Roosevelt the students shot such questions as "Should we enter the war? . . . Are there appeasers in the State Department?" Mrs. Roosevelt answered off the record. They took turns presiding at meetings, organized groups of hecklers to get practice in handling them...
...Bermann-Fischer Verlag. Little or no exile publishing has been done in the U.S. in the languages of the smaller countries overrun by Hitler, or by antiFascists in Italian. Anti-Franco Spanish books are almost entirely published in Mexico and South America...
...Harcourt, Brace has become the U.S. distributor for the untrammeled books in German of Bermann-Fischer Verlag, now mostly printed in Sweden, which reach the U.S. by devious and precarious routes. It was husky, sunburned...
Gottfried Bermann-Fischer's firm in Germany which 40 years ago brought out Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and thereafter sold 1,300,000 copies. The doctor opposed the Nazis even after Hitler came to power, moved his business to Vienna, fled with his family to Switzerland, to Stockholm, finally...
...Bermann-Fischer lives in Greenwich, Conn., where his 14-year-old daughter, eldest of three, recently won a gold watch at high school for excellence in French...