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Outside of Phu-Nai church, largest in all Viet Nam, a small boy ran ahead of Les américains waving a big new Stars & Stripes made for the occasion in the hardworking local flag factory. A six-piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Arms & the Bishops | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...Puerto Ricans had among us a powerful Anti-Defamation League, or an organization along the lines of B'nai B'rith . . . you wouldn't pick on us so much. After all, outside of cowboys and gangsters, Americans have not produced any great brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Buttenwieser, Manhattan investment banker, onetime president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and now Assistant U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, made a trip home to make a couple of speeches. One of them was to be given to a convention of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, a group dedicated to "promoting better group relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not All Devils | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...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 »

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