Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago organizations of U. S. Jews were bitterly at odds over a demand by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise and his American Jewish Congress for a referendum on whether an all-inclusive agency should be formed to defend Jews' rights. Last week 38 grave Jewish leaders, called together by Merchant Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, assembled in Pittsburgh to talk over a compromise. By day's end they had found one, which was quickly ratified by the four big organizations-American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee and B'nai B'rith. They agreed to form...
...nine years, Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times (p.m.) was Vice-President and Business Manager of the Chicago Tribune (a.m.), published by his Northwestern Law School classmate and former law partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick. The Daily Times is the closest imitation in U. S. journalism of New York's tabloid Daily News, published by ''Bertie'' Mc-Cormick's cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson.* The Chicago Times, like the New York Daily News, is a gay and vigorous supporter of the New Deal. Nothing delights the Times more than baiting solemn...
...towering, ham-handed Representative Martin Dies (rhymes with "pies"') of Texas. With him will work six House colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed in 1936, was glad to join Mr. Dies. They got their resolution passed-but when the committee was picked...
...America" is Manhattan's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise. Since 1924 he has been alternately president and honorary president of the American Jewish Congress which he. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Felix Frankfurter and others founded in 1917, to represent Jews "as a group and not solely as individuals." The Congress is ardently Zionist, zealous in promoting the anti-German boycott and getting up mass protests against Hitler. Last week, Rabbi Wise's deep cello voice was throbbing, his Mosaic profile bobbing, as he stumped in favor of a referendum for a united front for U. S. Jewry...
...Acquitania are Vincent R. Bailey '40, stroke; Howard M. Turner, Jr., '40, 7; Samuel M. Pierce '40, 6; Richard Fay '40, 5; George von L. Meyer, Jr., '38, 4; George C. Cutler, Jr., '40, 3; John S. Stillman '40, 2; John G. Gilkey, Jr., '39 bow; Nathan M. Plaut '39, cox. Robert Homans '40 and John H. Ijams will go along as substitutes...