Walter Winchell continued to refer to the Bundists as “Bundits,” and Dorothy Thompson, the prominent journalist and wife of novelist Sinclair Lewis, who’d been expelled from the 1939 Bund rally for exercising what she called her “constitutional right to laugh at ridiculous statements in a public hall,” went on denouncing their propaganda in the same spirit she’d demonstrated three years earlier when she’d exited the rally shouting, “Bunk, bunk, bunk! Mein Kampf, word for word!”
