Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Britain's stricken manufacturing districts damned Japan for dumping, for forging British trademarks, for sweeping many a British cargo boat off Far Eastern seas by debased yen competition. To champion Japan uprose only one M. P., that doughty Gladstonian Liberal. Sir Herbert Samuel, who lately led 33 Orthodox ("Free Trade") Liberals across the House from the Government benches. In his first opposition speech, Sir Herbert confined himself to cotton. Japan's commercial advantage in that field, he said, results from a well organized cotton textile industry "with which slipshod British methods would be unable to compete under...
...Defeated, 434-to-58, a motion presented by Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the Orthodox Liberal Opposition, censuring the Speech from the Throne for its "lack of constructive policies...
...Freshmen, Five Seniors were found who will travel by boat, two Sophomore roommates in Winthrop House who said they would bicycle their way home, and two Freshmen who were going to their native village "on the thumb." For some reason the Junior Class seems to be the most orthodox. Only three of its members were found who will go home by ship, and none who would either hitch-hike or ride their bicycles...
...Vriendt, able Dutch Jew, settled in Jerusalem, was a tower of. strength to the Agudist party-orthodox, devout, antipolitical Jews, friendlier then to the devout Arabs than to the freethinking, politically-minded Zionists. But De Vriendt had two secret weaknesses: one was writing agnostic verse, the other was an Arab boy. He thought no one knew about either, but when the boy's family found out and his life was threatened, his friend Irmin of the British Secret Service discovered one of De-Vriendt's frailties. Knowing the perilous political situation in Jerusalem and fearing the consequences...
...many of the nation's 4,000,000-odd Jews are orthodox no man can say, because any congregation may include varying stripes of belief. But many a Jew cleaves to kosher dietary laws even after he has discarded other orthodox practices. In New York City where live nearly one half of all U. S. Jews there are about 6,500 kosher butcher shops. A kosher tax would be profitable, but whether the Agudath Harabonim could levy it effectively seemed doubtful. If all Jewish congregations approved it might be done by agreement with meat dealers. Or the rabbis could...