Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When I first saw the heavily Jewish passenger list I was in the same frame of mind as Mr. Caldwell-all sympathy and just waiting for a chance to condemn any discourtesy on the part of German passengers or ship's personnel. . . . Instead, they made themselves thoroughly objectionable, with the exception of two charming families who, by the way, did not mix with the others. They stared and made loud comments about fellow passengers, they were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them...
...Jewish Max Hecksher was a prosperous clothing manufacturer in Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
Last year she learned that Nazis, having ruined the Hecksher business, had put Max Hecksher in a concentration camp. Rose Hoga went to elderly Harry Bragarnick, a Jewish merchant famed in Milwaukee for his good works. She offered to put up $1,000 of her savings for expenses if he would get the Heckshers and their son Helmut out of Germany. Harry Bragarnick told Rose Hoga to keep her money, got busy himself...
...things must be kept high and the low things low." His hearers could only guess at his allusions, but among the "low" things which took place in Danzig in violation of the Constitution were the suppression by local Nazis of opposition parties and the imprisonment of Socialist, Catholic and Jewish (though not Polish) enemies. In fact, things got so "low" last January that Dr. Burckhardt, who was placed in virtual quarantine by the ruling Nazis, suddenly left, returned for only several days in March and then got the League's permission to leave more or less permanently. The League...
...Paris it was learned that the Franco Government sought a reconstruction loan of $100,000,000 from a group of bankers (headed by Mendelssohn & Co. of Amsterdam) largely dominated by Jewish influences. The bankers' answer was to propose an economic survey of Spain. They suggested it be made by onetime Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium. Paris financiers added other conditions: that Spain renounce partnership with Germany and Italy, declare neutrality in any forthcoming...