Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name out of a new edition of Who's Who in American Jewry. Explained Dr. Landsteiner, a Catholic convert: "Among peoples of the earth [there is] prejudice against Jews and Judaism. ... It will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors; first, as a matter of convenience and secondly, I want nothing that may in the slightest degree cause any mental anguish, pain or suffering to any members of my family. . . . When the book will be published, there is no saying how many newspapers might refer to me and openly designate...
...judging a man is a wise and proper one presents an entirely different question. The only point at issue here is whether the two men were dismissed because of their political views, and it seems eminently clear that their political views did not have anything to do with the matter whatever. It is only because their views are known that the furore arose...
...second reason that the matter has been kept in the public eye is because the University issued an ill timed and impolitic statement declaring that the decision was reached solely on the grounds of "teaching capacity and scholarly ability". Although the University's record is practically perfect in placing men whose appointments have been concluded in other institutions this statement may very possibly make it hard for Walsh and Sweezy to obtain teaching positions in other institutions. Their appointments were ended because of the crowded Economic Department. "Teaching capacity" had little to do with the case...
...matter of statistics, only two men have successfully escaped from Sing Sing since Warden Lawes has been there. He does not damage that record in Chalked Out, but neither has he enhanced his literary record with a show whose melodramatic iconoclasms will doubtless fare better in the films...
...Saint Cloud, Minn., after two horses had exhausted themselves dragging the 2,500-ton granite postoffice to its new location, Supervisor E. W. LaPlante recruited a dozen brawny girls to haul it the last block. "The idea is," said he, "to prove that the task is not a matter of strength, but rather the mastery of power...