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Until German-American Bundesfiihrer Fritz Kuhn proved last February that he could mass 20,000 followers at one time in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, he and his strutting Bundsters were to most New Yorkers a pack of Dutch comics. But his Garden show gave the shivers to libertarians and plain democrats, made him quarry worth hunting even though his own pack was well content with him. Last week the hounds, set at his heels by New York City's libertarian, Nazi-baiting Mayor LaGuardia, ran down Nazi Kuhn. Charged with plucking $14,548 of Bund funds...
...their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam Municipal Museum. Thence, recently, Museum Director Fritz Loew-Beer sent them to the U. S. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wanted the pagoda and throne for an exhibition of Chinese treasures in Manhattan, to raise money for the War Orphans Fund of her good friend Mme Chiang Kaishek...
HAMBURG, Pa.--Fritz Kuhn, German-American Bund leader, was arrested at nearby Krumville tonight and was to be returned to New York immediately to face grand larceny and forgery charges...
...Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...
Michigan's Fritz Crisler and his 1940 Wolverine football machine make their Harvard debut on Soldiers Field on Oct. 12. The Sophomore football crop at Ann Arbor was far above average last fall, and by 1940 these lads will be shooting for mythical national honors. Year in and year out, the Big Ten produces some of the best football in the land, and in 1940 the rejuvenated Wolves will be as burly as any of their conference rivals...