They kept exclusively to themselves in the Deutscher Verein, and scarcely ever saw a real, true-bred American.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
In every city the German Verein unites the German community, so that Germans may avoid competition and may co-operate with one another and with Germans in the Fatherland.
"South America and the War"
F. A. Kirkpatrick
The former composed "Judas Maccabaeus" and "Alexander Balus" to please the Jews who had come to his help when he made financial shipwreck with his opera; the latter created the Richard Wagner Verein to put the Bayreuth enterprise on its feet.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel