Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orthodox Jewish rabbis. For ten hours these bearded men of God prayed and pondered. Before them was a question involving what is most dear and holy to pious Jews-kosher food. Long have the rabbis charged that in New York City's poultry markets much trefah (unclean) fowl is foisted upon Jews as kosher. A mediator appointed by Mayor LaGuardia recommended that plombes (lead seals) be attached to kosher fowl as they are to kosher meats; that a tax of iff per fowl be levied to defray costs of vigilant inspection. The city poulterers rejected the plan, called...
...York's 1,500,000 Orthodox Jews the first issur (ban) of its kind and the most extensive ever attempted in the U. S. This the rabbis debated in the Hotel Pennsylvania. Agreeing all but unanimously, they declared that no Jew of the community may buy an untagged fowl, that no Jew may even use a utensil in which untagged fowl has been cooked. Praying for strength to carry out the issur, the rabbis hoarsely chanted: "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty. He judgeth among the gods...
...bird observer and was one of the first sportsmen to recognize the possibilities of the Cape for duck shooting, doing much to popularize the sport around Boston. In his younger days he was well known for his painting of wild life and especially noted for his pictures of water fowl both of which have been on exhibition in many places in the last 30 years...
...week an itemized account of the number of youths he had "out to the house" for meals, a professor would be entitled to a reimbursement from the University to the amount of 50 cents a student. In other words, for every hungry Harvard youth that devoured a Brattle Street fowl, the University would assume damages to the extent of four bits...
...only highly significant for the present but also indicative of the future. They are lent additional strength by the fact that this would probably be the ideal solution of the Austrian problem from every point of view but the German. Dollfuss, who is now neither fish nor fowl and who consequently has no power over the elements which he called in to save him would be displaced; a moderate form of Fascism headed by a man of aristocratic antecedents would be more satisfactory to all groups in Austria than any of the bloody alternatives which face them; last, the government...