Records. American-Southern Africa Council-American Volta Company (inclusive), 1912-1974.

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Records. American-Southern Africa Council-American Volta Company (inclusive), 1912-1974.

Correspondence and promotional materials concerning the American-Southern Africa Council (a right-wing group seeking to furnish medical supplies to anti-guerilla forces in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]), 1969; American University College in the City of Vienna (a non-existent medical school, part of a scam operated by Carl Julian Douglas of Cashiers, North Carolina), 1970-72; the periodical AMERICAN VETERAN and advertising therein falsely attributed to the AMA, 1974; and American Volta Company, producers of a rheumatism-cure powder, 1912-1949.

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