Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That boldest of bold Jews, massive, magnetic, organ-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, gave the World Jewish Conference in placid Geneva a mighty rousing last week. "We Jews are in the front-line trenches," he cried. "We are the 'Belgium' of the latest German war against mankind. The mighty army of Christendom and Civilization stands behind us and around...
Throughout the week Rabbi Wise and his Conference put on a good show of representing the "forgotten Jew," the petty Jewish tradesman who fills his shop window with anti-Hitler slogans. In a cablegram to the Conference last week Spearhead Samuel Untermyer of the anti-Nazi boycott begged Rabbi Wise not to give the impression that the boycott is primarily Jewish. "Few influential Jews are supporting us," declared Boycotter Untermyer. "No Jewish banker is a member of any boycott committee or has openly dared to support or contribute to the movement because of fear of German reprisals or because...
...beginning God created man and set him in the realm of nature. . . . And Africa, most rich, most terrible, through the slow centuries shaped her race, and the long struggle made the African. . . . God gave to the African a special gift, and made him wise in the magical rhythms of the day and the night. . . . And the African carried into his long captivity a pulse as of strong hearts beating...
Columnist Arthur Brisbane gloated: "Geese will say 'How terrible to spend so much money for one picture in these times.' Wise men will say to the geese: 'You wouldn't get the money anyhow if he didn't buy the picture. He is to be praised for bringing that magnificent work of art to his own country, where thousands of young artists will see and be inspired by it.' Mr. Mellon is generous, lending his finest paintings for public exhibition...
...prowess of Man o' War that he remains today the outstanding U. S. racehorse with which all others must, sooner or later, be compared. In 1930 some thought that Gallant Fox might get into his class. In 1931 it was Twenty Grand that the dopesters were hopefully watching. But wise-acres long ago agreed that neither was the equal of the 17-year-old who last week was sunning himself on the Riddle farm near Lexington, Ky., while Paramount angled for his services in a racehorse film based on a story by Sportswriter Damon Runyon...