Word: disregards
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Like Gaul, U. S. Jewry is divided into three parts: Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Orthodox Jews are the fundamentalists, who observe intact the Mosaic code and dietary regulations. Reform Jews are the modernists, who largely disregard the old traditions, believe in religious evolution. The Conservatives are middle-of-the-roaders. Last week, with the future of Jewry in Europe darker than ever, two of these U. S. branches met in Michigan for rabbinical conferences, voiced clearly what was troubling Zion in the world's No. 1 Jewish country. At-Charlevoix, 130 members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis...
Exit Dietrich. Two days later Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Hay informed Hitler's slick director of Nazi intrigue in Mexico and Latin America, Arthur Dietrich, that he was no longer persona grata in Mexico, that his activities, pursued with arrogant disregard for the laws and privileges of his host country, were "prejudicial to Mexican interests." An investigation of Dietrich had revealed that his office served as a relay point for instructions from Berlin to Nazi agents in the U. S., as well as elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions...
...sects. They clatter about the country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah...
...League of Faithful Confederates, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, and last month a second would-be Führer named Robert Tobler, whose party is called the National Front, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Last week the Swiss Government warned its citizens to disregard any purported "official" orders not to resist invaders: Switzerland would resist any invader...
...President and Fellows have let Boston's professional moral-minders know that they are not going to back down on the Bertrand Russell issue. This is entirely in line with Harvard's traditional disregard for public opinion in picking its teachers. What is significant is that Harvard is not hollering for free speech, a phrase which dominated the recent New York controversy...