[3] In 1939, three booksellers from the Bookniga Corporation, Raphael Rush, Norman Weinberg, and Morris Liskin, were prosecuted under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register as agents of the Soviet company Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga.
In May 1953, Glaser was fired from her $4,000 a year library clerk job by Dag Hammarskjöld, after she refused to answer questions about her political beliefs posed by loyalty investigators.
[11] In 1955, the store was one of four businesses targeted by the FBI in an investigation of Soviet propaganda in the United States.
[14] The store was also the target of another small bomb attack in 1981, which was attributed to a member of the Jewish Defense League who demanded the release of Natan Sharansky.
[2] Press coverage of the strike attempted to portray Glaser as hypocritical for being unable to support the store's workers while selling Marxist literature.