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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...
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atmosphere of the hearings, one by one Plaintiff Broussard, his counsel and the Honest Election League had by last week withdrawn from the investigation, declaring that it "had degenerated into an effort to purify Huey Long...
...because any congregation may include varying stripes of belief. But many a Jew cleaves to kosher dietary laws even after he has discarded other orthodox practices. In New York City where live nearly one half of all U. S. Jews there are about 6,500 kosher butcher shops. A kosher tax would be profitable, but whether the Agudath Harabonim could levy it effectively seemed doubtful. If all Jewish congregations approved it might be done by agreement with meat dealers. Or the rabbis could exert gentle pressure. Tho.ugh the rabbi does no slaughtering, which is the job of a trained...