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...rose in the Senate on Dec. 10, 1930 Mississippi's Democratic Pat Harrison, arch-baiter of the G. 0. P., to remark: ''For the last 18 months Herbert Hoover has shown that he has not only ditched the United States but he has drained the whole world." The alliteration was later expanded but Senator Harrison is credited with giving the phrase its first political currency. He took it from a constituent's letter. The letter has been lost; the constituent remains nameless...
...judges looking like vultures in their black robes. All the critics who kotowed in Forain's honor this summer recalled these as well as the great series of etchings of the life of Christ he made about 1910. Few of them recalled that he was a violent Jew-baiter, that during the days of the Dreyfus case he helped found the anti-Semitic paper Psst. He was little remembered for the vicious propaganda pictures he drew during the Franco-German and World Wars. In New York last week the Caz-Delbo Galleries had an important showing of his paintings...
...hard to see how I can be at one and the same time a "priest baiter" as my opponent calls me, and a candidate for the anthropoid circles of Dayton, Tennessee. I am not a priest baiter but have the most profound respect for almost all forms of Christianity, or even, of "Religion," though I do not find it necessary to capitalize the last word at every turn like your anonymous correspondent, the inference being that his religion is true and holy, and all the others the sheerest bunk and rubbish. My doxy is all right, and your doxy...
...raise $25,000,000, and in 1929 the Palestine Emergency Fund. At present he is national chairman of China Famine Relief. When he arrived in Manhattan two years ago from Detroit to engage in banking, he was welcomed with a testimonial dinner attended by 2.000 businessmen, including onetime Jew-Baiter Henry Ford. Than David Abraham Brown, the American Hebrew could have found few backers more popular and therefore potent among Jews of all classes...
With her plump, black-eyed brood, Jewess after rich Jewess scuttled out of Germany last week, filling trains de luxe with wails and confusion. Mother-instinct knew the meaning of Jew-Baiter Adolf Hitler's election victory fortnight ago, when his Fascist "Brown Shirts" leaped fearsomely from ninth to second place among German parties (TIME, Sept...