Word: pogrom
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...twelve tribes of Israel. Years later the warlike, hirsute Esau (who came from his mother's womb "all over like an hairy garment") terrified Jacob and his followers when he appeared at the ford of the Jabbok with 400 men, but instead of carrying out a pogrom he forgave his brother, embraced him. (Genesis, Chapter...
...outright bribes to newspapers, Premier Edouard Daladier was reported to have proposed to his Cabinet specific measures to "correct many of the evils existing under our unrestricted freedom of the press." Most French papers have accommodated the Government by suppressing the more unpleasant facts about the recent Nazi pogrom. A general toning down of all references to Adolf Hitler & Germany was last week believed to be part of the deal which Frenchman Daladier and German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop were about to strike in Paris...
...help the Jews. Irish Catholic Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got credit for having activated Neville Chamberlain's negotiations in Paris which found a partial answer to the question. Nowhere were people more horrified at Adolf Hitler's pogrom than in Britain. A poll showed that more than seven Britons out of ten, while sympathetic to Chamberlain, considered the Nazi terror a bar to Chamberlain's "appeasing" relations with the Reich...
...complex in practice that few companies have tried it. Last week a Senate committee started to find out why this is so and what, if anything, should be done about it. At least it should provide a neat display of benign capitalism as an antidote to a possible Monopoly pogrom...
...Reich's biggest pogrom last week continued and expanded. Their present hunger and oppression was not all that Jews needed to fear. They seemed to have no future but hunger and oppression. The Führer and Chancellor made it known through trusted Nazis that in all probability Germany will rebuff all offers by the Great Powers to organize emigration of Jews from the Reich...