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...their living rooms and wreaths in their windows. So widespread is their celebration - purely social - of the Christian feast, that few rabbis bother any more to inveigh against it. Indeed, one rabbi last fortnight ardently defended Christmas-for-Jews, in the influential Protestant Christian Century. He was Louis Witt of Dayton, Ohio, leader in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, chief Reform Jewish body. Said Rabbi Witt...
...Witt. One of labor's safeguardians was Nathan Witt, 36, Secretary of the Board, an old employe, hardworking, father of two, conscientious. Artfully into the record Counsel Toland introduced a series of memos from Board Member Leiserson to Board Chairman J. Warren Madden. In them, Dr. Leiserson: 1) accused Mr. Witt of giving oral reports of cases differing from the record, complaining about "the usual irregularities in procedure characteristic of the Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt...
...with the American Newspaper Guild. They heard talk of an NLRB "goon squad," of the Board having relations with a union of its own employes, which it forbade industry, office delays, annoyances, talebearing, favoritism. They heard read into the record a letter from the Cincinnati regional director to Mr. Witt, telling how a friendly city editor had killed a story unfavorable to the Board...
...Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North Sea for neutrals as well as combatants, had an immediate effect on Dutch shipping. At Lisbon 1,000 passengers, aboard the liners Oranje, Jan Pieterszoon Coen and Johan De Witt, disembarked to continue their journeys by other means...
...Witt you, won't you, will...