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...many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth Association could no longer, it announced, stand responsible for the ritual cleanliness of the delicatessen stores. A treasured necessity of Judaism was in danger. Kosher, Trefah, Parve. The Bible outlines, the Talmud interprets, and Qaro's Shulchan Arnch (Table Prepared...
...general outlook presented by the beer situation is that of a distinct blot, with few highlights. Harvard is directly affected by the clause forbidding sale to minors, which only constrains large institutions who do not need it, and which will be avoided completely by those to whom it should apply; but the state at large is touched by the whole affair. It is an example of the sort of precipitate absurdity which has for years furnished Mr. Mencken with subjects for his articles, and which has created all the connotations which attach to the word, "America...
...timing his speeches, Mr. Smith has acted with similar circumspection. By entering the contest late, he has allowed time to blot out the memory of the bitterness of last spring; he has emphasized his value to his party, by withholding support until the last possible minute. Governor Roosevelt and the Democratic moguls may object to his slights and his frankness, but in Alfred E. Smith they possess one of the most, if not the most, canny of the politicians of his time...
...imagine any greater calamity which could have befallen this family? ... If this wife and mother, this husband and these faithful boys go to the penitentiary, it won't be the first time the penitentiary has been sanctified by its inmates. But if they go, it would place such a blot on the fair name of this island that all the Pacific Ocean could not wash it away. . . . Every instinct that moves human beings is with us in this case. . . . Lieut. Massie is not a small man, except in size. There is no cowardice, no fear in him. . . . What's that...
...Salonica the unwritten Greek law about Jews worked again last week. Eight Greeks, shown by overwhelming testimony to have set the Jewish quarter of the city afire last June, were called by the Greek prosecutor "guilty of excesses which are a blot on civilization"-but he asked acquittal for six of the blotters and only four months imprisonment for the other two. Promptly the Greek jury, unwilling to punish even two blotters, acquitted all of them...