Register of the John C. Metcalfe papers

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Title: John C. Metcalfe papers
Date (inclusive): 1935-1949
Collection Number: 72069
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 13 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes (5.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diary, correspondence, reports, notes, pamphlets, clippings, and printed matter, relating to the infiltration of the German-American Bund by J. C. Metcalfe as an investigative reporter in 1937, and to the activities of fascist organizations in the U.S.
Creator: Metcalfe, John C.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Subversive activities -- United States
Fascism -- United States
Journalists
Chicago times (Chicago, Ill.)
German American Bund
United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944).

 

DIARY 1937

Scope and Contents note

Daily notations of undercover work within the German-American Bund conducted by John C. Metcalfe as a reporter for the Chicago Times, May - August 1937, arranged chronologically.
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Daily notations of undercover work within the German-American Bund, (this material was used by the U.S. Justice Department in the sedition case, U.S. v. McWilliams et. al.). May-August 1937

 

SUBJECT FILE 1935-1949

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and printed matter, collected by John C. Metcalfe as an undercover reporter within the German-American Bund for the Chicago Times in 1937, and thereafter an an investigator for the Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives, arranged alphabetically by subject.
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American Bilbo Club

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American fascist organizations

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American Guards

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American Rangers

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Anti-semitism

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App, Austin J.

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Appeasers

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Arcand, Adrian

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Armstrong, George W.

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Auhagen, Friedrich E.

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Boy Scouts

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Brand, Gustave A.

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Brem, Alfons

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Brooks, Sidney

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Broom, The

 

Burkhard, Alex

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Lists of addresses

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Correspondence

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Clippings and pamphlets

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Christian Front

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Christians, George W.

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Close, Upton

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Cogswell, Virginia

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Commercial influence of German government in U.S.

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Common Sense

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Communism

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Constitutional Educational League

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Coughlin, Rev. Charles E.

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Crusaders for Americanism

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Crusading Mothers

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Davin, Frank

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Dayton Independent

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Deatherage, George E.

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Dennett, Prescott

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Dennis, Lawrence

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Destiny, The Magazine of National Life

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Dies, Martin

 

Dies Committee Hearings

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Metcalfe's reports

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Correspondence

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Gingrich testimony

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Metcalfe testimony

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Clippings

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Dilling, Elizabeth

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Donovan, William J.

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Edmondson, Robert E.

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Edstrom, O.E.

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Elmhurst, Ernest

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Espoinage

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Fack, Hugo R.

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Facts, The

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Fascist consulates

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Fascist documents

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Fascists

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Fifth column

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Fish, Hamilton

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Forbes, Richard

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Ford, Henry

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French socialist movement

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Friends of Democracy

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Friends of the New Germany

 

German-American Bund

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General

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Correspondence

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Stationery

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Announcements

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Tickets

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Maps

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Translations from yearbook

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Publications

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Clippings from Deutscher Weckruf

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Consular aid

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Criminal records of Bund members

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Dies Committee Hearings

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Dies Committee Reports

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Deutscher Konsum Verband

 

Leaders

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Elmer, Gustave

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Froeboeses, George

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Gissibl, Peter

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Kuhn, Fritz

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Kunze, G. Wilhelm

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Nicolay, Carl

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Risse, Arno

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Westphal, Edwin

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Posts

 

Propaganda

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General

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Film

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Radio

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Youth movement

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German-American Citizens League

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German-American League for Culture

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German-American National Alliance

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German consulates

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German industry

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German refugee press

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Germany

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Goff, Kenneth

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Grand Jury

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Green, G.F.

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Harold, G.

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Hart, Mervin K.

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Hearst, William Randolph

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Hitler, Adolf

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Holmes, Burton

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Hungarians

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Hunter, Edward H.

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Ickes, Harold H.

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Immigration

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Indians, American

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Independent Nationalist

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Italian Anti-fascist Committee

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Japanese

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Jenkins, Jessie Welch

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Jenkins, Newton

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Jung, Harry A.

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Justice Department

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Kamp, Joseph P.

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Keeling, Ralph F.

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Kelly, Edward J.

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Klein, Henry H.

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Ku Klux Klan

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Kunze, Gerald W.

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Langer, Senator William

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League for Constitutional Government

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Lee, Warren C.

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Leese, Arnold S.

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Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Lohbeck, Donald A.

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Lutheran Research Society

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Maertz, Homer

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Mahler, Kurt

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Main, John (Reports of)

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Maloney, William P.

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Mayer, Marie

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Merten, Claire M.

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Mertig, Kurt

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Mexico

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Miscellaneous

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Mosley, Sir Oswald

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Mosley, Major General George Van Horn

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Mothers of American Sons

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National Blue Star Mothers

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Nationalists

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National Christian Labor Party

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Negroes

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Neumeister, Karl

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Norris, Frank

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Oberwinder, Hellmut (assumed name of John C. Metcalfe)

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Organized Americans of German Ancestry

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PM

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Pamphleteers, The

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Pease, Major Frank

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Pelley, William D.

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Pelypenko, Father Alexis

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Perkins, Rev. Jonathan Ellsworth

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Peyton, Jack

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Pfaus, Oscar

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Postwar Germany

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Postwar Nazis in U.S.

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Protective League of America

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Rath, Georg

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Reilly, Lawrence P.

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Richter, Edwin Paul E.

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Robnett, George W.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Ross, Dr. Colin

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Rubinstein, Serge

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Russian Revolutionary Party

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Sabotage

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Scherbert, Hans

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Scherger, Dr. George L.

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Sedition

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Shea, Donald

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Silver Shirts

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Smith, Gerald L.K.

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Smith, Gerald L.K.

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Smythe, Edward J.

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Snow, John B.

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Society of Prevention of World War III

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South Africa

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South America

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Spivak, John L.

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State Department

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Steamship lines

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Sterling, Susan

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Sullivan, Edward F.

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Sweden

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Swift, Charles B.

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Swift, Wesley A.

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Terminiello, Rev. Arthur

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Thomas, Martin Luther

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Tittman, A.O.

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Transocean News Service

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Treason

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Ukranians

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U.S. Protective League

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Valtin, Jan

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Veterans

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Viereck, George Sylvester

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Visson, Andre

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Vonsiatsky, Anatase A.

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Vooros, Helen

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Voters Alliance for Americans of German Ancestry

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We the Mothers

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Weg, Der

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Weiss, Frederick Charles F.

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Williams, Major R.H.

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Winchell, Walter

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Winrod, Gerald B.

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Women's Voice

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X-Ray, The

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Zoll, Allen

 

MISCELLANEOUS

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Leads for further investigation, arranged alphabetically by city

Scope and Contents note

Notes and correspondence concerning leads for further investigation, arranged alphabetically by city, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings, unarranged.
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Newspaper clippings