Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelming expeditionary force to Palestine and bestowed the most extraordinary dictatorial powers of life & death upon Lieut. General John Greer Dill, when they ordered him to put an end to the Arab general strike (TIME, Oct. 5), the Arabs by now would quite possibly have slit most of the Jewish throats in that country...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin abated during his prolonged vacation (which had continued up to last week since last July), and he was back at No. 10 Downing Street to shake up the British Cabinet before it again faced the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the smart, young Jewish Liberal who seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott...
...GOES ON-Sholem Asch- Putnam ($3). Laid in post-War Germany, this well translated chronicle of a Jewish family ranges from bankers to Communists, by the author of Three Cities...
...Jewish real estate speculators who bought up all nearby leases the moment they heard Mrs. Simpson had taken the house at No. 16 Cumberland Terrace for the winter (TIME, Sept. 14) had already begun to clean up. They were charging and getting nearly twice the rent previously paid for nearby houses as London swanksters last week tried to establish themselves as near as possible to the favorite. Her house happens to be on Crown property, although Mrs. Simpson's sublease is twice removed from King Edward, and this fact last week gave London Bobbies an excuse for telling citizens...
...Moscow, and with the surprising observation that Mr. Bullitt's late mother was a half-Jewess whose maiden name was Louisa Gross Horwitz. Imperturbably commented Cousin Logan Bullitt last week in Philadelphia: "I have always had a very definite impression that Bill's mother was part Jewish...