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Word: ameri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...being persecuted here in America today. Although the German-Ameri-cans represent 25% of the voters, our representation in government is far below that figure." Thus last week in Chicago did thin, baldish Dr. Walter H. Silge address the members of the German-American National Alliance. Although the doctor was not on the air, his remarks were typical of the propaganda that the G. A. N.A. broadcasts daily over Station WHIP in Hammond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alien Corn | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...which claims the affiliation of 372 Illinois German-Ameri-can societies, is full of patriotic protests. Even while it sprays the German-Americans of the Middle West with a paraphrase of the sales talk the Nazis used on the Sudeten Germans, it boasts of its "Americanism." It urges all German-Americans to get together to protect their race against the "internationalists." G. A. N. A. also denounces in Goebbelsey phrases Great Britain and its U. S. sympathizers "from the White House down." Excerpt translated from a bit of German poesy recently aired over WHIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alien Corn | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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