Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Officials of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S., in Detroit to arrange their national convention, declined an offer from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
Speaking for His Britannic Majesty's Government during a closing session of the House of Lords last week, the Earl of Plymouth, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, gloomed: "Unless collaboration [by Germany] is forthcoming, this problem-already a difficult one-may possibly be rendered quite insoluble." Jewish supporters were quick to retort that even penniless Jews would prove a benefit to any nation...
...such a scheme has worked out on a small scale, and that Germany could be persuaded to enter into it, Miss Thompson cites the little-known Ha'avara arrangements between Germany and the Jews in Palestine. Ha'avara, an organization for the transfer of .capital of German-Jewish emigrants, five years ago succeeded in getting Germany to accept frozen German-Jewish funds to pay for exports. German exporters get paid for the goods they ship to Palestine out of earmarked emigrant funds (blocked marks). By this method, some 82,000,000 marks in goods have been transferred...
...Nazi newsorgans attributed last week's break to: 1) turning of securities into cash by German firms desirous of raising further working capital amid the Rearmament scramble; 2) forced sales by Jews squeezed in Vienna and elsewhere in Germany by fresh "Aryanization" measures, one of which excludes Jewish brokers from stock exchanges in the Reich...
...begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult of a thousand conversations, of hundreds of mothers calling their children, is an antiphony to the sound of passing motors...