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unpatriotic, Jews didn't believe in being patriotic, Jews were radicals. Then they printed the names of a lot of Jews who were radicals. Karl Marx, a Jew, was one of these. The implication was that all the Jews held the views of Karl Marx, and that all Jews were radicals. All these people were Jews and therefore all these people were hazardous radicals. Those were the implications.

They printed the names of all kinds of people, some of them Jews, some of them not Jews. Among other people whose names they printed was my name, which was an astonishing picture to me. It got to be gossiped, “You know she's really a Jew.“ That came by word of mouth gossip. Other people would say, “Perkins isn't a Jewish name.” “Ah yes, but there was something. Now one of the Perkins's married a Jew.” Now, I know who one of the Perkins's married and an ignorant person might easily think that her husband was a Jew. His name was Timothy Adamowski. He was the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was a Polish gentleman. I think that he was born in this country and that his father had been a Polish exile. He was a gentleman, very well educated and moved in the best of circles. He married Miss Helena Perkins, the daughter of James Perkins of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Adamowski lived long, happily and flourishingly in Boston





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