Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
...Last week General von Blomberg as Reichswehr (Army) Minister issued an order which warmed Nazi cockles, a definitely anti-Semitic order. "In future any member of the Reichswehr desirous of marrying," he decreed, "must submit evidence that his proposed bride is Aryan that none of her four grandparents was Jewish]. Further she must be respectable. She must be not disaffected toward the present German State and she must be of a family measuring up to like requirements." This order, Nazis exulted, means that though the Reichswehr may continue to remain for a time aloof from politics, its bachelor members will...
...Jewish lawyer in New York, a notorious criminal in Atlanta Penitentiary, a college professor in Reading, Pa., a fugitive from Federal justice, an alderman vacationing in Europe and 19 other assorted Chicagoans all had common cause for worry last week. It was a big warm blanket indictment by a Cook County grand jury charging them one & all with being trade racketeers. Behind the indictment lay Chicago's years of industrial bombings, murders and terrorism, and twelve weeks of secret investigation by the grand jury before whom appeared 588 frightened witnesses. A strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State...
...Craned their necks to peer at Professor Albert Einstein who walked into the distinguished strangers' gallery wearing a white linen suit while his friend, Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson M. P., flayed Hitlerite persecution of Jews, offered a bill to extend to Jewish refugees greater facilities for obtaining British citizenship...
...protest against German antiSemitism, Henry Ludwig Mond, Baron Melchett, British chemical tycoon, half-Jewish member of the Church of England, embraced Judaism in a liberal London synagog...