Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the Lutherans published their resolution, Nominee Smith, in a New Year's message to U. S. Jewry, published these balanced phrases: "The separation of Church and State is a fundamental American principle. The pursuit of virtue sanctioned by religion is at the basis of any civilized State...
...answer to specific inquiries as to religious affiliations among Governor Smith's political appointees, New York's Jewish-descended Secretary .of State, Robert Moses, published the following tabulations...
Figures. Paramount figures in the inquiry have been Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, sports promoter and alleged bootleg tsar; Louis R. Elfman, onetime lieutenant of Hoff's who has turned State's evidence; Edward S. Goldberg, whose "Military Sales Co." sold machine guns and bulletproof vests to Hoff and others...
...lesser personage might have been more heavily punished. Mrs. Knapp was New York's Republican Secretary of State in 1925-27. In taking the State census she padded the payroll and forged check endorsements to the amount of some $24,175.82 (TIME, June 4). Democratic Governor Smith put Republican Attorney-General Albert Ottinger in charge of the case and the latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home...
...never had an individual membership; it has always consisted of 48 State leagues, with local chapters, governed throughout by "superintendents," "secretaries," "educational directors" (propagandists). Financed by churches and philanthropists, it spent some 45 millions up to 1919, some 15 millions since, to influence elections and legislation...