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...bank crisis of 1930-33 some 37 Philadelphia banks, with deposits of $110,000,000, gave up the ghost. One bank which squeaked by was Integrity Trust Co., witt $47,240,000 of deposits (1931). Integrity, with its assets badly frozen in real estate, was probably saved because it had its crisis before most others...
...Elected Herbert Witt as executive secretary in place of Joseph Lash...
...University of Wisconsin, the Union knew that its resolutions would label it more clearly than any Dies Committee investigation. Up for debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded) and friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, who defended...
Passionately Rabbi Witt was answered in last week's Christian Century by another rabbi, Edward L. Israel of Baltimore. Said...
...Does Rabbi Witt intend to maintain that Christmas is just a pagan thing which needs syncretism with Judaism for pur poses of spiritualization? I think that Christianity will bitterly resent the gratuitous inference. . . . Dr. Witt pursues his blundering and ill-considered way by gratuitously unitarianizing most of Christendom [i.e., by remarking that Christians no longer believe Jesus divine]. As a Jew, I unqualifiedly condemn Rabbi Witt for this affront. . . . The truly devout Christian of whatever denomination has far more respect for the Jew who, conscientious to his own religious loyalties, does not observe Christmas, than for the Witt type...