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...Must Play Saxophone." Authors Epstein and Forster find the greatest progress against anti-Semitism during the last 25 years has been in the area of industry, although many job orders to employment agencies still carry codes, such as "All American," "G" (for white gentile), or "Nordic." Sometimes the codes are farther out; one Manhattan agency uses the incomprehensible phrase "Recommended by Redbook" to indicate that no Negroes are wanted and "Must play saxophone" to exclude Jews. But such discrimination has declined sharply since the late...
...Jenny Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
...merchandising the quality and engineering of their cars. Both companies build their cars from sheet steel that is as much as 20% thicker than that used by U.S. automakers, and coat them with a hide of paint so tough that they need no garaging even in the Nordic winter. To dramatize this sturdiness. Volvo (Latin for "I roll") promises Swedish buyers that it will repair accident damage free during the first five years of a car's life. Saab tests its cars by subjecting them to the subArctic climate of Lapland, once rolled a car (with driver) down...
...threat to Europe. Reflecting on the loss of Europe's "boldest and best" racial elements through emigration, Hitler saw the U.S. as "a new folk community of racially highest value." In fact, opined Hitler, America was a racist state: "That the American union feels itself to be a Nordic Germanic state and by no means an international stew of peoples is evidenced by the manner of allotment of immigration quotas to Europeans-first Scandinavians, then English and finally Germans have the largest quotas...
...bombarded with letters suggesting that the assignment of a Negro to the role of Venus was a "cultural crime" against the obvious wishes of Wagner himself. Wieland remained unmoved: "I shall bring in black, yellow and brown artists if I feel them appropriate for productions. I require no ideal Nordic specimens...