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Revolutions & Pogroms. Before 1848, there were only about 20,000 Jews in a U.S. population of more than 20 million. Most of the pre-1848 settlers were Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors had lived in Spain or Portugal. In the two decades after Europe's revolutionary tremors of 1848, more than 200,000 European Jews, most of them German-speaking, migrated to the U.S. Their Americanization was rapid and thorough, gave rise to a Reform Judaism that outspokenly rejected the traditional idea of Jewish nationhood...
...months ago when some 100,000 Pacific Northwest lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...
...involved in no situations which would be likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...
Kinsey carefully explained that he was forming no further conclusions about the mores and manners of the Mochicas. He pointed out to interested Peruvians that his main studies center on the sex life of modern North Americans, but he hopes that what he learns of pre-Inca habits may throw some added light on his contemporary research...
...each six feet long by a yard wide. Outwardly identical with Greek tombs elsewhere in Paestum, these sepulchers were distinguished by livelier and peculiarly individualistic interior paintings of chariot races, departing warriors, gladiators. Sestieri's conclusion: the conquering Lucanians not only took over the Greeks' city, but pre-empted their tombs as well. Executed by Greek artists under Lucanian orders, the sepulchral paintings, he believes, indicate the existence of a previously unknown style of early Italian...