Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uniting Conference, President Roosevelt sent an approving message: "To a world distracted by malice, envy and ill will . . . a harbinger of better things. . . . The Methodists have pointed the way. . . . May God prosper the work . . . combat the forces of strife that threaten our heritage of religion...
...Demand for Action." On the newsstands appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of Equality, "A Monthly Journal to Defend Democratic Rights and Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism." Conceived by Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein (a Catholic), Equality has on its editorial council such prominent Jewish intellectuals as Publisher Bennett Cerf, Playwrights Moss Hart and Lillian Hellman, Anthropologist Franz Boas. Its first issue contains articles on anti-Semitism by such potent non-Jews as Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Warden Lewis E. Lawes, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Its credo...
...Semitism in the United States-and we condemn those who ignore it for one reason or another-cannot be understood as a so-called religious or racial problem. We beg that the bitter lesson of Europe be learned: that where anti-Semitism triumphs, Fascism triumphs as well. . . . Equality will combat all those who attempt to cover up manifestations of antiSemitism. . . . It is becoming clear that all the forces in American life concerned with . . . combating anti-Semitism are veering from the hush-hush position to a demand for action...
...liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have stretched and perverted these powers to impose taxes, trucking fees, quarantines, which in actual if not legal fact are tariffs between the States. Since most of the devices are technically constitutional, only the Legislatures which created them can remove them...
...pamphlet aims its chief thrusts at Father Charles Coughlin for his radio attacks on the Jewish race. It traces the history of the anti-Semitic movement through the Middle Ages, pre-revolutionary Russia, and Nazi Germany, and concludes with a chapter on "How to Combat Anti-Semitism...