Word: kister
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sequel to "Under Cover" of the war years, takes the reader on an unforgettable tour behind the seenes of an American political underworld where hate is the would-be vote-getter. The picture he paints will endure; the uninitiated will have seen what seaminess can be. It is Frederick Kister, or Gerald L. K. Smith, or William Dudley Pelley harangning a crowd of 52-20's in a shabby meeting house on the edge of a large Eastern city. It is a rally of "We, the Mothers," anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-"furriner" feeling whipped to a fever pitch...
Christian Veterans of America. Headed by Frederick Kister, onetime America Firster and friend of Yorkville's Joe McWilliams. Its National Chaplain: Arthur W. Terminiello, Roman Catholic priest suspended by his bishop for "detrimental" activities, sometimes known as the "Father Coughlin of the South...
...first the Gestapo paid no attention to publishing; it was too busy with the banks. Then the House of Roy, along with other Polish publishers, received an order to turn in all their anti-Nazi books. (They published anti-Nazi Hermann Rauschning.) Through the winter Mrs. Kister carted 70,000 volumes to the Gestapo headquarters...
Early in the winter of 1939 - Mrs. Kister cannot remember the date exactly, but it had already snowed - a Pole took a pushcart loaded with unbanned Roy books out on the streets of Warsaw to see if the Germans would permit them to be sold. They were sold. At the end of the eight months that Mrs. Kister and her daughter were in occupied Warsaw, 200 pushcart book peddlers, most of them women, sold Roy books on the streets of Warsaw. Bestsellers: history, dictionaries...
Later the Kisters got to New York City. At first Hanna Kister got a job teaching school in Brooklyn. Her husband could find nothing to do. They began publishing shamefacedly, thinking they should find work in defense factories. They printed two books of poetry by modern Polish poets, in editions of 1,000 each, sold them to Polish-Americans, including Polish speaking steelworkers in Pittsburgh. The Roy Publishers' first book was The Mermaid and the Mcsserschmitt (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942). It sold a respectable 5,000 copies, with Mrs. Kister traveling through the Middle West to persuade bookstores...