The suggestion that a racial quota be established in dental schools was condemned today by Archie H. Greenberg, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, as a “gratuitous insult to the 500,000 Jews in the armed forces.” He said it would result in denying to many returning Jewish veterans the right to study dentistry.
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