Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light on Kuhn. Next on Martin Dies's hospitable griddle was German-American Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn. Before the Committee last August, Fritz Kuhn did very well by himself, thanks largely to the feckless questions put to him by Martin Dies & colleagues. Last week witness Kuhn undid himself...
...words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt joined the hunt, noted:"She [Dorothy Thompson] sensed in Col. Lindbergh's speech a sympathy with Nazi ideals which I thought existed but could not bring myself to believe was really there." (Snapped Hugh Johnson next day at Mrs. Roosevelt: "That is exactly the kind of stuff that got us into the war in 1917.") Plainer people began to sound off. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney called Lindbergh's speech "impertinence." Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown called it imperialistic. A Reserve Officer chaplain in Seattle spoke of "Herr von Lindbergh." Sculptor Suzanne Silvercruys...
...Next day Earl Browder was indicted by a Manhattan Federal Grand Jury on two counts, charged with false swearing in 1937-38 passport applications. Maximum penalty on conviction: Five years in prison, $2,000 fine, on each count. Tears of anger and chagrin in his eyes, he pleaded not guilty, was held in $7,500 bail, as the Grand Jury dug into still more evidence of Communist travel habits. Possible was the bagging by Frank Murphy of such Reds as Executive Committeeman Max Bedacht, Publisher Alexander Trachtenberg. And no one could reasonably complain that prosecution for criminal fraud endangers...
Corporal Hitler. "Though he spoke of his artistic tastes and of his longing to satisfy them, I derived the impression that the corporal of the last war was even more anxious to prove what he could do as a conquering generalissimo in the next...