Word: ghettos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain of the captured Polish cities, such as Tarnow, Jews comprise half of the population, and Nazis talked last week of segregating "Ghetto cities," but meanwhile every Jew who could escaped from German Poland last week, many fleeing to Soviet Poland, since to escape to Hungary or Rumania was to leap into anti-Semitic frying pans...
...proportions, this "fine" represents a persecution of such concentrated and vicious nature as to arouse world-wide condemnation. Enforced by a reign of terror reported second only to that of the French Revolution, the Nazi demands show a desire to return the Jewish people to the days of the Ghetto...
...known than The Golem (TIME, March 29). Every major city in the world has seen it staged; it has been translated into 17 tongues, including Esperanto. Rappaport died before his play was produced, but he left the rights to it in trust for the poor of Warsaw's ghetto. Last week, for the benefit of Polish Jews, Manhattan cinemagoers paid as high as $10 a seat to see The Dybbuk's U. S. premiére as a motion picture...
...Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants to paint the lad. Says she: ''What color?" From then on Mammon begins losing rounds. The escapade winds up with reconciled principals pushing puffy Mr. Palmiston through the portrait of Blue Bolt...
...Prenzlauerberg, Berlin's northeastern district, 100 new park benches were installed. Ninety-two bore the inscription "Jews Prohibited"; the remaining eight "Reserved for Jews." Der Angriff, mouthpiece of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, strongly recommended adoption of this "ghetto measure" in other Berlin districts...