Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young lover of his hostess, his brother Hobart, an American capitalist interested in organizing Fascist youth movements, his doll-like wife, Phoebe, her daughter Joan, and her flance, Clendon Wyatt, a Rhodes scholar. Huge Willens, a German music critic, recently released from a concentration camp for having a Jewish great-grandmother, and Nikolai Jurin, a Russian emigre...
...Envious of Palestine's prosperity, the Syrian Government announced it would welcome Jewish immigrants who renounce Zionism, agree not to buy land near the Palestine border, and bring in enough capital to help revive Syria's sultry trade...
Thus began a newsworthy document which President James Lukens McConaughy last week sent to the two dozen Jewish undergraduates of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. Set forth were prime facts & figures about medical schools, Jews and Gentiles...
...under 5% of the population are Jews. The trend in medical schools is to hold Jewish enrollment down to about the same ratio as Jews have to the entire population...
...above facts explain," President McConaughy, a tolerant Congregationalist at the head of a tolerant Methodist college, went on to elaborate, "why it is difficult for Wesleyan to place her graduates of the Jewish race in medical schools. It should be apparent that in selecting its freshmen each medical school will feel some degree of responsibility for the graduates of the institution with which it is associated, and it therefore is impelled to accept the promising applicants within its own borders. It is now quite generally admitted that, after that selection has been made, very little room is left for Jewish...