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Origin of the Nazi movement in the U. S. antedates the Hitler regime by ten years. In 1923 the Teutonia Society, patterned vaguely on Klan principles, was the biggest of a dozen or so similar groups whose members gave aid to the National Socialist Party in Germany throughout the late 20's. In 1933 these groups were merged as "Friends of New Germany," run by Heinz Spanknobel, a Nazi party member. Herr Spanknobel, indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury for failing to register as the agent of a foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany...
...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...
...compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none of the younger generation has done more than he for the recognition of German music throughout the world." Since then, Kulturbolschewist Hindemith, though he still lives in suburban Berlin, has had to go abroad to hear or perform his own works in public...
...President Walter S. Gifford took care to get his word in first. "This country," observed Mr. Gifford, "is entitled in good times and bad to the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost." Referring to the FCC report: Said he: "This investigation . . . has been one-sided throughout. The company was denied not only the right to cross-examine investigation witnesses and to be heard in its own behalf, but was denied the right to have included in the record written material which it had prepared and considered necessary to point out serious and important errors affecting most...
...small daily gatherings which will precede the plenary sessions of the second conference--that of the University Teachers Association. It is in these small meetings that the basic framework for much new educational theory is evolved--theories which will be carried into actual practice in the ensuing year throughout New England. Harvard is indeed fortunate to have such annual gatherings as these promulgating new ideas under its wings, thus giving the University a chance to bless lesser schools with its findings, and also a chance to benefit by any findings of the lesser schools, a much needed form of reciprocation...