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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly distressing was the Arab split. Both parties were agreed that Palestine should be independent. But the faction under the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem has long tried to achieve that end by terrorism, while the Defense Arabs, under two leaders, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi and his uncle Ragheb, wanted negotiation. The Mufti Arabs refused to negotiate with the Defense Arabs, whom they would shoot on sight in Palestine. By diligent shuttling Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald finally got them together...
...week's end Mr. MacDonald shuttled to the hotel to see the ailing Ragheb Bey Nashashibi. By then the Defense Leader was so miserable that he sent out word that he was sound asleep. To open his eyes, Mr. MacDonald sent him a bunch of big red roses...
...frail body, however, could stand no further onslaught, and when he complained of pain in his bladder, his physicians realized that his kidneys were weakened and knew that the end was near. Dr. Milani rose from his own sickbed, administered adrenalin. But it was no use. In a short time the Pope's heart gave...
...night last week, as his car reached the end of its run, a San Francisco cable-car conductor heard the muffled howling of dogs. Next he investigated, traced the noise to an abandoned night club. He notified the San Francisco S. P. C. A. When Officer Al Girolo broke in, he found 34 feebly whimpering dogs chained to the silver-&-gold walls inside. Obviously near death from starvation, the dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny spots where their hair had fallen out. Two of the dogs were dead. Seven...
Although the Armstrong Investigation viewed with alarm the steady mushrooming of the biggest insurance companies, no effective legal brakes were applied. At that time there were 138 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $2,924,253,848. Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219. The biggest three companies in 1906 had some half billion dollars in assets apiece then; now they have more than a billion apiece. And Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which in 1906 had only $176,000,000, today...