Word: racially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution unanimously condemning "all persecutions from racial or religious motives which place a number of human beings in the impossibility of obtaining a decent livelihood...
...Stark statement made many scientists thoroughly angry. They formed a committee, chose as its spokesman "Papa Franz'' Boas, 80-year-old Columbia University anthropologist. Papa Franz, a Jew of German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...
...American scientists . . . hold fast to their conviction, that . . . science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creeds and can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom. ... It is in this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory...
...manifesto summons scientists to educate the American people against all false and unscientific doctrines, "such as the racial nonsense of the Nazis," as Boas put it. Agents of Fascism were seen to be increasingly active, and Boas urged that his colleagues join with men of "good will" to defend democracy, and avoid the fate which was meted out to men like Albert Einstein, James Franck, and Thomas Mann...
...persuade him, making pretty copy about him for the newspapers. "I am open-minded about it," he temporized. "After all, my first venture in political life as a youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago...