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These are certain to disrupt the arithmetic. The challenges could, theoretically, leave some states without any delegate representation. Said Walter Posen, counsel to the party's credentials committee: "The credibility of the entire convention is at stake." The three issues in the challenges are: 1) whether delegates were selected in violation of the spirit of the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision, 2) whether Negroes or other minorities are adequately represented in the delegate selection, and 3) whether delegates, chiefly McCarthy supporters, should be required to take a loyalty oath, promising to support the convention...
After Mamma's Boy, a Punch. In Hebrew, Baruch means blessed. Little Bernard was first blessed in his parents. His father Simon fled his native Posen (then in Germany) to escape conscription in 1855 and became a selfless country doctor in Camden, S.C. He served gallantly as a Confederate Army surgeon. Bernard's mother was a statuesque beauty with the pluck to forget that her father's fine plantation lay gutted behind Sherman's line of march. Of her four sons, "Bernie" was the "mamma's boy," shy, chubby (his nickname was "Bunch"), quick-tempered...
...Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said to have been sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a Jewish court, so also as the last decades of the eighteenth century...
...Place Is Here." Leo Baeck never tried to be anything but a scholar like his father and a good rabbi. Born at Lissa, Posen, which was then part of Germany, he studied at Breslau and Berlin and in 1905 wrote a book, The Essence of Judaism, which is still being studied and translated into the world's languages. He served as a chaplain in the German army in World War I, then settled down in Berlin to write and tend his flock...
Still setting up new operational records, Allied air power based in Britain launched attacks on some 40 targets in Germany and occupied Europe. The air strikes pounded French airfields, reached out as far as Posen and Gdynia in Poland, and Marienburg in East Prussia...