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Many a sentimental Gentile supposes Zionism to be a great pious urge to return the Jews of the world to the land of Abraham and Moses. Actually, as most Zionists know, it is no such thing. Of the world's 16,000,000 Jews only 175,000 live in Palestine.* In ratio to 750,000 Moslems they are a definite minority and many a Jew believes that Great Britain, despite past promises, intends to keep them a minority.? Furthermore Zionism's case is made no better for having long been rent not only by schisms but by schisms within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Palestine Boom | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Late in the summer Swindler Baiata began to glance wistfully at Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co., which had $13,000,000 of perfectly good assets. Working control could be bought for $400,000. Gathering about him a crew of sharpers, Mr. Baiata arranged to buy the company for $25,000 down, the balance in instalments. Clerk Van Derck provided the down payment from Ledger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ledger B | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Died. Abraham Spencer Freeman, 24, son of Sydney Freeman of London's famed betting commissioners "Duggie's" (Douglas Stuart, Ltd.); in a motor accident; in London. Acting for his father, he bought up $300,000 worth of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets in Manhattan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

During the period of occupancy of the Harvard buildings as barracks, considerable damage was done to them and so, after the removal of the troops from Cambridge, it is not surprising to find Holden used by the college carpenter, Abraham Hasey, as a workshop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holden Chapel | 11/28/1934 | See Source »

...should like to see the Republican Party reorganized. ... I don't think there is any room in this country for an old conservative party. . . . Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were liberal leaders. It doesn't take long to shake off what you call conservatism. . . . There was a vast amount of reaction against the New Deal, but what were the people offered? . . . People can't eat the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTIES: Morning After | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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