Word: fores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father of the Houston statement was Beth Israel Trustee Leopold L. Meyer. But the congregation's young Rab bi Hyman Judah Schachtel, son of an Orthodox cantor, got a few hard raps. He had come to Houston from Manhattan's West End Synagogue only three weeks be fore the principles were adopted. But he stood by them. Said he: "If I had written the principles I would have made some changes. I endorse them in the main. . . . Our congregation does not oppose Zion ism. We simply do not participate...
...over him. Mrs. Fish tried to stop. But she pushed the lever too far the other way, and the car backed up, ran over the Negro again. This rattled Mrs. Fish. Again she pushed the lever forward too far, again ran over him. The Negro jumped up, yelled: "'Fore God, ma'am, you sure is goin' to run over me," dashed for his life around the corner...
...soon as installment No. 1 appeared, the Archbishop found himself raked fore & aft by the U.S. Protestant, liberal and leftish press for his praise of Franco. Wrote Archbishop Spellman in Collier's: "My impressions of him are in accordance with his reputation as a very sincere, serious and intelligent man. . . . Whatever general criticism has been made of General Franco (and it has been considerable) I cannot doubt that he is a man loyal to his God, devoted to his country's welfare, and definitely willing to sacrifice himself in any capacity and to any extent for Spain...
...Russia to exert her full strength in the West. But the question of Russia's Pacific policy will become a matter of red-hot concern in the U.S. when Germany falls; every day that brings Hitler's doom nearer also brings the Pacific question more to the fore...
This group remained in the background while brilliant, flabby-fleshed Maxim Litvinoff had his internationalist innings in 1929-39. But when the Munich pact ended the Geneva daydreams, the nationalist band came to the fore. One of its members, Viacheslav Molotov, stepped into Litvinoff's place as Commissar of Foreign Affairs...