Simon Wolf: Private Conscience and Public ImageFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1987 - 225 Seiten A detailed biography of the powerful political attorney Simon Wolf (1836-1923), who exerted unparalleled influence over American presidents and other leaders and numerous constituencies. This study reveals why his many achievements brought him no lasting fame. |
Inhalt
| 17 | |
Recorder of Deeds | 34 |
Building a Constituency | 61 |
Egyptian Interlude | 70 |
Champion of the Immigrant | 79 |
Challenges to Power | 92 |
Justice for the Stranger | 99 |
In the Shadow of Restrictionism | 121 |
Toward Racism An Expense of Energy | 132 |
In the Russian Maze | 140 |
Wolf Classical AntiZionist | 161 |
The Search for Lasting Recognition | 176 |
Notes | 182 |
Bibliography | 211 |
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Seite 28 - Post commanders will see that all of this class of people be furnished passes and required to leave, and any one returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permit from headquarters. No passes will be given these people to visit headquarters for the purpose of making personal application for trade permits.
Seite 13 - ... a conclusion? This is a matter of very grave importance, for no other religious body is so classified, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, etc., but against the Jews only is this discrimination made, which is contrary to every principle of our Government. Understand, that in this matter I am acting as Chairman of the Board of Delegates of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Yours very sincerely, SIMON WOLF. Department of State, Washington, September 4, 1903.
Seite 27 - ... is loyal or rebel, or whether he is paid in corn-meal or gunpowder. The officers of the army, in numerous instances, are believed to connive and share the profits, and thus the army itself is diverted from fighting the rebels to speculating in cotton...