Word: gerson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gist of Archivist Goapka's findings: the Willkie family did not emigrate 90 years ago in search of freedom, after Germany's abortive Revolution of 1848, but ten years later, because a Jew named Gerson did them out of the coppersmithy...
Archivist Goapka made much of the fact that Bernhard Gerson, who bought the smithy, paid nothing down, instead for 13 years paid Widow Willcke a monthly installment of 7⅔ talers...
...fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited to see what would happen. Said Manager Sam Gerson, as host to The Man Who Came to Dinner: "An actor used to say, 'Well, I guess John Lewis won't like that.' Now he's going to say, 'Well, I guess Mr. Petrillo won't like that...