Word: rith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
...Jewish groups soon replied. Said Leon Gellman, of the World Mizrachi Executive: "An example of clerical anti-Semitism." Added B'nai B'rith President Philip M. Klutznick: "A disservice to the cause of democracy." In London, the archbishop's chaplain explained that the statement was "purely political." The archbishop is regarded as the Church of England's political spokesman...
...Puerto Ricans had among us a powerful Anti-Defamation League, or an organization along the lines of B'nai B'rith . . . you wouldn't pick on us so much. After all, outside of cowboys and gangsters, Americans have not produced any great brains...
...investment banker, onetime president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and now Assistant U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, made a trip home to make a couple of speeches. One of them was to be given to a convention of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, a group dedicated to "promoting better group relations...