Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed with fear a Jewish butcher named Ludwig Frohwein was hustled into court at Weisbaden last week to confess that he had butchered a steer in kosher fashion...
...that German rabbis are now urging vegetarianism as the only salvation of the Fatherland's 200,000 Orthodox Jews. Germany's remaining 350,000 Jews are rated nonOrthodox. Up to last week anti-kosher arrests had all been for the crime of smuggling in kosher meat illegally. Butcher Frohwein was the first to be arrested for actual kosher butchery...
Archbishop Leon Tourian. towering, grey-bearded primate of his Church in the Americas. Suddenly a knot of men sprang at him in the aisle. There one of them plunged a butcher knife through brocaded vestments deep into the Archbishop's midriff. The Archbishop groaned, leaned heavily upon his gold crozier, toppled to the floor dead. In horror the congregation milled about the defiled church...
...that rose from the Rhine all sounds seemed magnified. Official witnesses and a handful of newshawks turned up their coat collars and shivered in the Cologne prison yard. Down below the Rhine steamers hooted mournfully. A door clanked. Out marched brownshirts, prison guards and the official executioner -a Cologne butcher on other days. Hoarfrost formed on the nap of his official top hat, on the shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt at the red-painted...
Offended by the bargeman and butcher-boy atmosphere of the hearings, one by one Plaintiff Broussard, his counsel and the Honest Election League had by last week withdrawn from the investigation, declaring that it "had degenerated into an effort to purify Huey Long...