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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groups. I am enclosing a copy of the Social Justice Program of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. I would also like to call your attention to the social program of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, representing the Protestants. These programs are not of recent origin, but are the result of many years of statements...
...Mittag total some 1,000,000. It also publishes many a fortnightly and monthly magazine. thousands of cheap, popular books. A fleet of airplanes distributes its daily and weekly publications to principal German cities. Though Louis Ullstein and other members of the family tried to forget their Jewish origin, both firm and family have lately been targets for Jew-hating Nazis...
While the University maintains silence as to the origin of the necessary $40,000, it is more than likely that the money will again come from the dining halls, for the cut in next year's board would indicate that the dining hall officials expect to make another considerable profit this year, if food prices do not jump...
...TIME here uses advisedly a word offensive to Italians and other persons of Mediterranean origin. In the average U. S. vocabulary the word conveniently connotes foreigners of suspicious, possibly vicious character. (In distinction, "wop" seems to mean a more goodnatured individual.) Used without respect to nationality, let "dagoes" not unduly offend any national sensibilities.-ED. *The curious, eminently readable, 89-year-old Nassau Guardian, semiweekly (circulation 3,000), composed on old tombstones and jointly owned by Miss Mary Moseley and Knowlton Lyman ("Junior") Ames of Chicago, assistant to Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News...
...only Briton to rise from private in the British Army to Field Marshal; of a heart attack in the night; in London. He rose to Wartime chief of the Imperial General Staff by no spectacular feats, by detailed, hard-headed executive service. Making no secret of his backstairs origin (onetime hallboy), he educated himself, impressed Horatio Herbert Kitchener in the Boer War by doing jobs others had failed at. In the World War he believed in concentration on the Western front, opposed dispersal of Britain's armies in Mesopotamia, Suez, Eastern Africa, opposed a supreme war council of Allied...