Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin. Dr. Julius .Lippert. Last week, word went round the coffee houses that the Brown Shirts finally had got the Mayor. Up before a secret party court he was hauled, charged with high crime: not bribery, not corruption in office, but buying articles for his own use from a Jewish department store. The evidence against him: two cancelled checks, spotted by a snooping Nazi bank clerk...
...case against Nominee Wilson charging that, as controller, he had diverted some of a $65,000 city appropriation into his campaign chest. Nominee Wilson, one of whose earliest and richest supporters was a contractor named Jerome ("Jerry") Louchheim, countered by insinuating that Nominee Kelly's backing was largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled the matter was a solid phalanx of Republican jobholders. Forced to hang together or risk losing their bread & butter, Republican ward leaders...
Arthur Lehman, No. 2 partner, son of Mayer (and brother of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman) is head of The Lehman Corp., an investment trust which the brothers founded in September 1929. He collects tapestries, heads Jewish charity drives, gave Lehman Hall (administration building) to Harvard in 1924, married Adele Lewisohn. Allan Lehman, grandson of Mayer and son of the late Sigmund Lehman, likes tennis, squash, fishing. From the Restigouche River in New Brunswick he sends home salmon to his friends, his acquaintances, his barber. Robert Lehman, grandson of Emanuel and son of Philip, married Ruth Owen Meeker...
FROM THE KINGDOM OF NECESSITY- Isidor Schneider-Putnam ($2.50). Autobiographical novel of Jewish life on New York's East Side, packed with warm characterizations and bland anecdotes, by a well-known U. S. poet...
...clubs or to enter in sport unless they are willing to affiliate with the Nazi Hitler Jugend or the Nazi controlled sport clubs. Dr. MacFarland, general secretary emeritus of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America states in the New York Times of October 22 that "Jewish sports associations have been disbanded. Jews are barred from public sports grounds and stadiums--that is discrimination. It would be absurd to claim that any non-Aryan could have a chance in athletics when he is discriminated against on all sides". It seems obvious that the conditions in Germany under...