"It is very unfortunate to try to bring religion into this campaign," declared New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block last week in a signed editorial in which he tried to bring religion into the campaign by asserting that President Roosevelt had drafted New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to run for re-election in an effort to snare the State's Jewish vote.
In Manhattan next day religion got into the campaign in a bigger way. Week before the New York World-Telegram had reported that a charge of anti-Semitism was being whispered against Republican National...
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