Word: racially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Wilson in West Newton, Mass. in 1910, Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) laid a long-lived rumor by declaring that her ancestors were all Protestants, had settled in New England before 1680, that her name had always been Frances Perkins, that "this appeal to racial prejudice and the attempt at political propaganda by unworthy innuendo must be repugnant to all honorable men and women." Said she: "There are no Jews in my ancestry. If I were a Jew, I would make no secret of it. On the contrary I would be proud to acknowledge...
...proclamation of the "American Nationalist Party": "Jews have a distinctly racial program calling for the seduction of any Gentile girl, young or unprotected...
...Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians of intellectual freedom, should openly fraternize with the avowed and shameless enemies...
...ancestors were Alsatians, which means that they were French. I was brought up as a Frenchman. I attended French schools, my friends were French, I have held official positions. ... I speak French perfectly and without a trace of foreign accent; even my facial features are free of particularly conspicuous racial traits. I am entitled to consider myself assimilated, and I feel sure that there is no element, however subtle, of the French spirit, French honor or French culture which is alien to me. Yet, though I feel myself to be genuinely French, I do, at the same time, feel that...
...Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial prejudice is outwardly visible here. Anti-Jewish signs have been removed from villages. The Stürmer, anti-Semitic newspaper, is being kept out of sight. A Jewish hockey player has even been drafted for the German team. In short, politics is being kept out of a sphere in which...