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...Jewish wife. They barred most such men from all but minor public jobs, requiring incumbent Jewish officeholders to resign within two months; from positions in the Army, Navy, Air Force; from jobs as teachers; from positions in press, radio, cinema. Vichy was very proud that these decrees were milder than Germany's-that Jews may retain civil rights as citizens. Some professions were not purged...
...Congress from Yorkville, Manhattan's German settlement. After listening to handsome Joe, who is part Cherokee Indian, with a smattering of formal education (a WPA public-speaking course), Harry decided that heckling was not enough. He hauled McWilliams off the stand. McWilliams' platform might have brought a milder man than Harry to the boiling point...
Embarrassed Tribune. Most editors, although they may have disapproved the secrecy in which Franklin Roosevelt had conducted his negotiations, praised the trade itself as a necessary defense measure. A few (including the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Topeka Capital} condemned the sale, but in milder phrases than the Post-Dispatch...
...brink of revolutionary developments which would, even with Allied victory, leave little in Europe recalling the democratic institutions we have known. And in such a world America would perforce be carried long way on the road to regimentation. But with Allied victory this regimentation would be self-imposed and milder, we hope, than that of an America competing in arms with a Nazi Europe. In Dante's Inferno there are nine circles. It is better to occupy the second than the ninth. Donald C. McKay Assistant Professor of Histor
Typhus and Typhoid. Carried by the louse and the rat-flea is Rickettsia prowazeki, a tiny organism which causes the dirty pink eruptions, burning fever and wild delirium of typhus fever. Prevention is simple: "no lice, no typhus." Also louse-borne is trench fever, a milder relative of typhus, which made its first appearance in World...