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Wisconsin U. Senior in Attack on Jewish Race

March 9, 1930
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An attack on the Jews by Robert Sykes, former football star and college senior, who led the anti-Communist attack here yesterday, featured the break-up of a street demonstration against unemployment in this college town. Taking matters into their own hands, five University of Wisconsin men created a minor riot that resulted in the injury of two Jewish student leaders of the parade, David Gordon and Lottie Blumenthal.

Levelling his attack on Gordon and the Jews, and implying that they were to blame for the situation, Sykes declared that “this has been going on for so long that if it is not stopped now, there is no telling what will happen. Besides, we are getting so many damned Jews here that something must be done.”

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