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After most of the synagogues in Germany had been burned in the great purge of 1938, Rabbi Baeck went on conducting clandestine services. Once police found his meeting, raided it, and sent everyone under 60 off to forced labor in factories. But the next Saturday more people came to worship...
Tobey hammered the table, waved his arms, mugged, and at times seemed close to the edge of genuine apoplexy. But Ryan did not repent. He testified that he had not purged his union of racketeers, and (although 60% of its organizers have criminal records) acted as though he had none...
Poet William Butler Yeats fell madly in love with her, addressed many of his loveliest lyrics to her. She starred in his play, Cathleen ni Houlihan. Very tall (6 ft.), wearing her Paris clothes carelessly in those days, she was, in George Bernard Shaw's words, "outrageously beautiful." She...
Professor Leach has served with distinction on the Law School faculty for over twenty years. His advocacy of expulsion for the Lubells was held on convictions that were sincere, held with neither malice nor a desire for favorable personal publicity. but it is difficult to see how his letter could...
He began last week with a startling announcement that last year's Georgian purge, like that of the Kremlin doctors, had been "a crude violation of Soviet law."