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...flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich, extortioner, heretic, deceiver, impostor, harpy, schemer, lickpenny, pinchfist, Shylock, chicanery, duplicity, crafty.* Mr. Blumenthal, 47, sent his article to Thomas Irving Crowell, 65, Protestant. The 'B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other day he sent Mr. Blumenthal proofs of now inoffensive pages. Therefore last week Jews lifted Crowell's Roget's "from their index expurgatorius...
Louis Behr, the fourth child of prolific Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr of Rockford, Ill., who have eight children, has played for three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which...
...nonclerical interpretation would indicate that the Chicago church-member situation jibes with empirical fact: church membership is a social phenomenon; the professional man belongs for church contacts, just as he more blatantly belongs to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving...
Among other greetings, this was read: "The Independent Order of B'rith Abraham, the largest Jewish fraternity in the world, sends fraternal greetings and best wishes...
...fact that the late Jacob H. Schiff, who until last year had made possible the presentation of a $100 prize to the winner of the contest, did not make any provision in his will for the continuation of the gift. Beginning with next year, however, the B'Nal B'rith Society of Boston will award $100 to the winner of the contest, which will again be included among the activities of the Menorah Society. Previously the prize has been given for the best essay by an undergraduate on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people...