Word: lerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Including Baltimore's School Superintendent George B. Brain, Detroit's Superintendent Samuel M. Brownell, Historian-Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, and President O. Meredith Wilson of the University of Minnesota...
...editor of a Midwest newspaper asked me a question the other day," wrote Columinst Max 'When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn't anyone today write about Goldwater as a Jew? Is the Jewish theme more taboo in politics than the Catholic theme?' " To Lerner, who is a Jew himself, the question insisted upon an answer, and he was quick to supply...
...believe that it isn't healthy," he wrote, "either for the country or the Jews, to stay away from the subject of Goldwater's Jewishness. To be sure, he is only a half-Jew by heredity and a converted Jew-an Episcopalian-by his practicing faith." But, Lerner went on, "the experience of Jews throughout history has been that even when they are only partly Jewish, and even if they or their parents 'are converted, the world thinks of them as Jews-and so does history. The case of the assimilated Jew in public life...
...statement of Larry Palmer, noted in the CRIMSON in the first page articles "Whites" Role in Bias Fight Argued Here" by Michael A. Lerner, (Oct. 10) is correctly attributed, then may I take exception and state that it is simply untrue to say that the only jobs available to Negroes working in the garment district of New York, are "... as janitors, and pushing garment racks around." If this observation is the result of walking around that area of New York, then the observers also ought to go inside the buildings. Negroes (and Puerto Ricans) are a large and increasing proportion...
...negotiations by conferring with his associates in Hebrew, likes to voice homey parables. He lives with his wife and three children in a lavish home on Long Island, where his special joys are a pump-powered waterfall and a library that contains more electronic gear than books. Despite the Lerner setback, Riklis last week hoped to raise some money by contracting to sell off one of Rapid-American's divisions for $4,300,000. But Meshulam Riklis is painfully learning that what comes rapidly can also rapidly...