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While he was jobless. Engineer Zwanziger took a civil service examination for a job as court interpreter. Last week, offered "probable permanent employment" as Polish and Yiddish interpreter in one of Justice Bissell's courts at $30 per week, he turned it down "because of insufficient salary." Thereupon Justice Bissell wrote a letter to the city's WTAdministrator Victor Ridder, declaring: "I do not believe that the funds of the people should be dissipated in supporting individuals who decline permanent employment in preference to WPA relief...
...Columbia broadcasting chains, at death grips with the potent music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation reeled in vertigo...
...whoever was responsible for the account of the Central Conference of American Rabbis [TIME, July 8], TIME-reader Fern Pels (who, incidentally, speaks a slick Yiddish) would like to point out one refreshingly asinine mistake...
...Gentile head"-a Yiddish expression meaning dunce...
...Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. in Brooklyn. She distributed circulars in English, Yiddish and Italian offering help to neighborhood women. Police arrested her, got her a 30-day jail sentence. Thereafter she became cautious in her public activities...