Word: polish-american
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...sing." She once headed the ultraconservative Good Government Club, which has defended the John Birch Society as one of the nation's "finest and most patriotic organizations." However, when the club's newsletter recently belittled Jews and blacks with bad jokes, Mrs. Slominski, who is of Polish-American ancestry, decided it had gone too far and repudiated its support...
...housing ordinance for Milwaukee, Father James E. Groppi has managed to both inspire and infuriate the city's 365,000 Roman Catholics. Last week, as Groppi led still another round of protest demonstrations by Negroes from Milwaukee's Inner Core, more than 400 whites-many of them Polish-American Catholics-marched on the residence of Archbishop William Cousins bearing a coffin labeled "Father Groppi Rest in Hell." Addressing the crowd through a police bullhorn, Cousins promised to consider their complaints-and then issued an open letter to the city disavowing Groppi's methods but backing his objectives...
...grandson of a Polish immigrant, Gronouski became the first Polish-American to achieve Cabinet rank when he was appointed Postmaster General under Kennedy and Johnson. Given a chance, he could use his standing in Washington and his authentic Polish roots to break the current deep chill...
...Protestants. America is a nation of racial, religious and ethnic minorities. Overall, even the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are a minority. I admit, regretfully, that when you attend any meeting of Republicans on the national scale, the faces you see and the names you hear are rarely Negro, Italian-American, Polish-American, Irish-American, or Jewish, or any of the other groups that combine to make up our country. Look at what happened in 1960 and 1964: in both of those presidential elections the Republicans lost 75% of the Catholic vote. We lost 80% of the Jewish vote...
Long & Short. It is true that when we start a national political campaign we will form a Jewish committee and an Italian-American committee and a Polish-American committee, and so on. Then, when we get into office, what...