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David Niles, the Glossary

David K. Niles (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1952; Boston, Massachusetts) was an American political advisor who worked in the White House from 1942 to 1951 for the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.^[1]

50 relations: Abba Eban, Abram L. Sachar, Al Smith 1928 presidential campaign, Anglicisation of names, Antisemitism, Ashkenazi Jews, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Boston Latin School, Brimmer and May School, Burton K. Wheeler, Chaim Weizmann, Communism, Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe, Edward Everett Hale, Eliahu Eilat, Executive Order 9981, Felix Frankfurter, Ford Hall Forum, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frederick Van Ness Bradley, George W. Coleman, Harry Hopkins, Harry S. Truman, Harvard Law School, History of the Jews in Russia, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Kohen, Massachusetts, Medal for Merit, Montana, Moshe Sharett, Nathaniel Niles (figure skater), New Deal, NKVD, North End, Boston, Office of Production Management, Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1934), Robert M. La Follette, Russian Empire, Sacco and Vanzetti, South End, Boston, Stephen Samuel Wise, United States Department of Labor, Venona project, War Production Board, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, Works Progress Administration, Zionism.
Franklin D. Roosevelt administration cabinet members
Truman administration cabinet members

Abba Eban

Abba Solomon Meir Eban (אבא שלמה אבן; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

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Abram L. Sachar

Abram Leon Sachar (February 15, 1899 – July 24, 1993) was an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University.

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Al Smith 1928 presidential campaign

Al Smith, Governor of New York, was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1928 election.

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Anglicisation of names

The anglicisation of personal names is the change of non-English-language personal names to spellings nearer English sounds, or substitution of equivalent or similar English personal names in the place of non-English personal names.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and one of the founding members of Beth Israel Lahey Health.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Latin School

The Boston Latin School is a public exam school in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brimmer and May School

Brimmer and May School is an independent, pre-K–12 school located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

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Burton K. Wheeler

Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882January 6, 1975) was an attorney and an American politician of the Democratic Party in Montana, which he represented as a United States senator from 1923 until 1947.

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Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe

Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe were established in Germany, Austria, and Italy, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps.

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Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. David Niles and Edward Everett Hale are Boston Latin School alumni.

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Eliahu Eilat

Eliahu Elath, born Ilya Menakhemovich Epstein (אליהו אילת, Илья Менахемович Эпштейн; 16 July 1903 – 21 June 1990) was an Israeli diplomat and Orientalist.

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Executive Order 9981

Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman.

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Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint. David Niles and Felix Frankfurter are American Zionists and United States presidential advisors.

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Ford Hall Forum

The Ford Hall Forum is the oldest free public lecture series in the United States.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Frederick Van Ness Bradley

Frederick Van Ness Bradley (April 12, 1898 – May 24, 1947) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district from 1939 until his death in 1947.

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George W. Coleman

George W. Coleman (June 16, 1867 – July 31, 1950) was an American publisher.

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Harry Hopkins

Harold Lloyd "Harry" Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. David Niles and Harry Hopkins are Franklin D. Roosevelt administration cabinet members.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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History of the Jews in Russia

The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.

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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. David Niles and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. are Boston Latin School alumni and politicians from Boston.

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Kohen

Kohen (כֹּהֵן, kōhēn,, "priest", pl., kōhănīm,, "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Medal for Merit

The Medal for Merit was the highest civilian decoration of the United States in the gift of the president. David Niles and Medal for Merit are Medal for Merit recipients.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Moshe Sharett (משה שרת; born Moshe Chertok; 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was the second prime minister of Israel and the country’s first foreign minister.

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Nathaniel Niles (figure skater)

Nathaniel William "Nat" Niles (July 5, 1886 – July 11, 1932) was an American tennis player and figure skater who competed in single skating, pair skating, and ice dancing between 1914 and 1932.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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North End, Boston

The North End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Office of Production Management

The Office of Production Management was a United States government agency that existed from January 1941 to centralize direction of the federal procurement programs and quasi-war production during the period immediately proceeding the United States' involvement in World War II.

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Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1934)

The Progressive Party was a political party created as a vehicle for Robert M. La Follette, Sr. to run for president in the 1924 election.

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Robert M. La Follette

Robert Marion La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925), was an American lawyer and politician.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Sacco and Vanzetti

Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.

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South End, Boston

The South End is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States which is bordered by Back Bay, Chinatown, and Roxbury.

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Stephen Samuel Wise

Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 – April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. David Niles and Stephen Samuel Wise are American Zionists.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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Venona project

The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Agency (NSA), that ran from February 1, 1943, until October 1, 1980.

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War Production Board

The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Niles

Also known as David K. Niles, Niles, David.

David Niles, the Glossary

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See also

Franklin D. Roosevelt administration cabinet members

Truman administration cabinet members

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