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Parker D. Wyman "44-'46 was trained in the armyto be vertical control operator for shellingattacks. "I determined what the elevation of ourguns should be," he says...

Author: By Emil J. Kiehne, | Title: Away From College, Vets Get Education | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, an accusatory, tweaked-up documentary that aired on PBS last week, the watchful do-nothings included high officials of the U.S. government. The 90-minute program, part of the "American Experience" series, was based partly on The & Abandonment of the Jews (1984) by David S. Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust also attacks President Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY: Did F.D.R. Do Enough? | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...half-century ago. Immigration laws had the effect of preventing Jews from coming to America, and Jews were routinely barred from certain professions as well as from vacation resorts that advertised themselves as favoring a "Christian clientele." Even after World War II broke out, according to polls cited in Wyman's book, as many as 24% of respondents considered Jews "a menace to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY: Did F.D.R. Do Enough? | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Despite that effort, William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian of the Roosevelt era, agrees with Wyman that F.D.R.'s record on the Holocaust was "shameful." ^ The U.S. Government could not have prevented the Holocaust, Leuchtenburg explains, but it took little advantage of opportunities to help its victims. Consider the question of whether American bombers should have attacked the railroads and gas chambers at Auschwitz. The documentary contends that while American Jewish leaders were being told such raids would be too dangerous for airmen, U.S. bombers based in Italy were attacking an I.G. Farben factory less than 50 miles from the death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY: Did F.D.R. Do Enough? | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Father means son. (Thus, for example, Bill Wyman's son is marrying the mother of Bill Wyman's wife. Bill Wyman will soon be his son's son-in-law, as well as father of his father-in-law. It's easy to tell a girl from a boy, however. Boys are the ones with earrings and long hair; girls are the ones with trousers and short hair. "Mother," of course, is the worst name you can call someone. That is because mothers are, in many contexts, objects of worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dictionary For These Times | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

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