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Word: nai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university that was to be sponsored by Jews but was to be nonsectarian in faculty and student body. The founders* took over the 100-acre campus of defunct Middlesex University, hired 50-year-old Historian Sachar, former national director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, as president, and opened Brandeis' doors with 107 freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: University with a Mission | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Stand on Freedom." Last week, when it appeared that college authorities would accept the Armstrong gift, tiny Jefferson became big news for the first time since Lafayette. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith denounced the gift as "probably the most vicious use of wealth that our generation has seen." The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League petitioned Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson to remove the school from the list of preparatory schools whose curriculums are acceptable to West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Storm in Mississippi | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Dwarf got dressed, thrust two Lugers into shoulder holsters under his long blue gown, then stopped in a back-alley opium den to share a pipe with an underworld crony, Nai Sakon. The Dwarf complained: "Pramote has doublecrossed us all. Now he has a racing stable, a new Packard and a beautiful wife. We have nothing but worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Angry Dwarf | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Lawyer Goldstein said that "at least a dozen organizations" were backing him, but he was not ready to name them last week. Apparently he did not speak for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, whose national director, Benjamin R. Epstein, declared: "We believe Mr. Goldstein's threatened resort to litigation . . . is unwise. A decent respect for academic freedom means that the police power of the state is resorted to only in those cases where the material is intended to undermine the democratic fabric and even then, only in extreme cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What About the Book? | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Green, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, told the Georgia Tech Technique what nice people the Klansmen are, really: "We don't hate anybody, but most everybody hates us." For example, "It doesn't make me mad because I can't join B'nai B'rith, but it makes the Jews mad because they can't join us ... We don't hate the Jews. Some of my best friends . . . are Jews . .. And then there is the Knights of Columbus organization. They won't let me join their group either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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