Word: shylocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shylock Marshall. In the next issue of the Gazette, it was Secretary of State George Marshall's turn. This time the Soviet puffer was Nikolai Pogodin, winner of 1939's Stalin prize for his play The Chimes of the Kremlin. Ambassador Smith did not waste his breath protesting. Excerpts...
...think RFC has been grossly mismanaged," he cried. "They have been in bed with Wall Street." Like a "Shylock" demanding its "pound of flesh," RFC in cooperation with Wall Street had played "power politics" with the Erie Railroad, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago & North Western, "and half a dozen other bankrupt railroads." By appointing former RFC employees as trustees of the bankrupt roads, RFC had in effect created an evil "voting trust." As a result, Young declared, "those railroads have been grossly, almost criminally mismanaged...
...Uncle Sam or Uncle Shylock" is the topic to be discussed at the second meeting of the Harvard Forum tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
...this not like Hitler's book-burnings ? If Chaucer must be banned because he tells us that medieval Jews were usurers (a profession forbidden to medieval Christians by their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
...terms sent to London were harsh enough to revive the old Uncle Shylock...