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...chem ist, had organized a subversive army of 200,000 Nazis in the U. S. Discovered by newshawks in a Detroit office plastered with Nazi swastikas, Chemist Kuhn eagerly admitted that his Amerikadeuts-cher Volksbund had 200,000 members, but denied all connection with the German Government. "The main purpose of our organization," said he, "is to open the eyes of the American people to the dangers they are facing in the Communistic movement now under way in this country." In Manhattan on receipt of an order from Fuhrer Kuhn last week for his followers to acquire snappy new uniforms...
These five men have two main functions: 1) to terminate by June 30 the 44 old ocean mail contracts costing the Post Office $26,500,000 this year, replace them with a direct subsidy large enough in each case to put a U. S. ship operator on equal footing with his foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime...
There is really only one character in the play: the Archbishop. Mr. Irving Locke, despite an occasional lapse of memory, rendered the role with an excellent proud reserve, the main thing called...
...probably made more money out of statistics than anyone in the U. S. One of the chapters in his autobiography is headed, "$1,200 Becomes Millions." As a youth, he relates, he "always liked bright, jolly girls, full of the dickens." But he kept his eye on the main chance, and after a disillusioning turn in investment banking, followed by a bad case of tuberculosis, he set himself up in Wellesley Hills, Mass. as a purveyor of business figures under the name Babson's Statistical Organization, Inc. He and his wife were the sole stockholders, still...
Like John Dos Passes' trilogy, The Old Bunch is punctuated and underlined by scraps of current popular songs, but the background (Chicago from 1921 to 1934) is integrated with the story. Some of the 20-odd main characters wander to Manhattan, Paris, Palestine, Greece, Poland, but the principal focus is on Chicago and "the bunch'' as they grew up there. "The bunch," high-school age in 1921, were second-generation Russian Jews. Few of their immigrant fathers were well off; most of them were buttonhole makers, shoemakers, pawnbrokers, barbers, cigar-makers. Most of the mothers still spoke...