 Three universities, Rutgers, New York University, and the State University of Iowa, were the only ones that wanted to ‘look me over’, and toward the end of May 1931 I visited all three places. The late Dean George Kay [of the University of Iowa] telephoned Professor Lewis long distance. As Lewis related to me, Dean Kay asked him in detail about my qualification, character, and personality. At the end of that (about twenty minutes!) telephone conversation, Kay finally asked: ‘Is he a Jew?’ To this, Lewis, the noble New Englander, gave the – to me unforgettable – reply: ‘I am sure I don’t know, but if he is, there is nothing disturbing about it’. (Feigl 1981, p. 74)