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...this time of recapitulation, it may seem adding insult to injury to regard the problems of men who seek to complete the college course in three years. Such men do, nevertheless, exist, and should be considered as well as their more usual classmates. The college does this minority an injustice by piling an extra course upon their already heavily burdened shoulders, and by so doing, increases their problems disproportionately. This extra course rule, to all intents and purposes, means that the three-year man must carry six courses in one year and five for two years, or else...
This was the Leader's idea of wiping out the stain of that "horrible insult, to German Honor," the awarding of the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize to an inmate of a Nazi prison camp.* Not only the Peace but all other Nobel Prizes are forever barred to citizens of the Fatherland. The new decree went on to set up three annual prizes of $40,000 each in the Arts and Sciences to go only to Germans. Reason given by the Ministry of Propaganda officially: "When we Germans do a thing, we do it thoroughly...
Enraged at this disrespectful treatment, His Majesty recalled his Minister, ordered the Iranian Legation in Washington and the Iranian Consulates in Manhattan and Chicago permanently closed (TIME, April 13 et ante). Last week the King of Kings was furious over "another French insult." Month ago L'Europe Nouvelle criticized the economic condition of Iran. The King of Kings demanded an apology, received one. A French columnist last week reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There...
This week still another insult was forthcoming. In the Geneva council chambers of the League of Nations...
...American Hebrew Congregations, plus its affiliated lay organizations, the National Federations of Temple Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods. Like the Rabbis, the Union seemed no longer sure of the virtues of modernism and Americanism. It was aware that enemies, in and out of Jewry, use the word "assimilation" as an insult, an accusation that Reform seeks to un-Jew the Jew. So the Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish...