Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...
...detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame is one of the very few well-baked tarts in any recent movie. And Paul Kelly has some remarkably effective moments as the man who hangs around her headquarters like an unwanted stray...
...Mormon terminology for any non-Mormon; Salt Lake City is probably the one city in the world where a Jew is a Gentile...
...zealots," as you call them (we imagine you are probably against "hysteria," too), played into Smith's hands and gave him good publicity; it would seem on the contrary that the occasion proved that there are at least 700 people in the Boston Area--who won't stand for Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting and the rest of Smith's bag of tricks, and this ought to be good news. The only people who have played into Smith's hands are such members of the national and collegiate press as have encouraged the untruth that the resistance to Smith was disorderly...
...course in the war nearly all Poland's Jews were slaughtered. A new Polish bourgeoisie took over their little shops and businesses. Now, when an occasional Jew does come back from concentration camp or other exile and reclaims his place, his successor hates him. And every other member of the new Polish bourgeoisie fears that his predecessor might return from the grave...