Word: baiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brooklyn. Last fortnight the Jewish Examiner nominated for "Jew-Baiter No. 1" Dr. Patrick Scanlan, managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Catholic diocesan organ whose letter columns have lately been full of discussions of "Jewish Bolshevism." Dr. Scanlan has particularly incurred Jewish displeasure by recommending that Dr. Albert Einstein be sent back to Germany, "where persecution might again impress him with its heinousness"-because Dr. Einstein joined Princeton professors in an appeal for lifting the arms embargo on Spain...
...Many citizens resented President Roosevelt's choice of a successor to the retired Justice Van Devanter because the new appointee was (1 a Roman Catholic, 2 lacking in any previous judicial experience, 3 a New England conservative, 4 a prominent "Red-baiter," 5 a past member of the Ku Klux Klan...
...reporter who did not get in was Columnist Heywood Broun, an accomplished Green-baiter. He was barred by Mr. Green's new pressagent, Philip Pearl, who resented Broun's description of his job as "streamlining" Bill Green...
Liberal Governor George Howard Earle's hand-picked chairman of Pennsylvania's cinema censorship board is Peggy Palmer, whose late husband A. Mitchell Palmer, as U. S. Attorney General, was the greatest Red-baiter of his day. In a hearing of an appeal against the board's banning of the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy, Mrs. Palmer last week showed her particolors. Her testimony: "The acting was the most magnificent I have seen since I've been on the board. ... I don't like Communism, so the picture is not the type I want...
...offering of special prayers for Premier Goga's aged right-hand man, 81-year-old Minister Without Portfolio Professor Alexander Cuza. Professor Cuza was not only founder of a predecessor of the present National Christian Party but is a famed oldtime Fascist and a vigorous Jew-baiter. Disdaining the Nazi swastika, Fascist Cuza has used a blue swastika as his party symbol (since 1910). In short order terrified Rumanian Jews learned that...