Word: eying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perspiring in a convention room of Detroit's Hotel Statler last week sat several hundred delegates to the 32nd annual conference of the Zionist Organization of America. But chilling was the picture they beheld with their minds' eye. They saw steely, Atheist Russia, land of Communism, attacking and destroying what they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett...
...that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had a bad automobile accident, suffered the loss of his left eye. Light-hearted despite this, he still rides and drives his car, plays his "fair" game of golf. In Washington the Szechenyis take their social and diplomatic duties most seriously...
...name chosen was World's Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...
...last week Nudism was again in the public eye. It was announced with complete gravity that suave M. Andre de Fouquieres, arbiter elegantarium, had joined the "Committee of Action" of Nudism, that he was a most earnest and enthusiastic apostle...
When U. S. producers feel the need for combination in their industry they proceed warily with one eye on the anti-trust laws. Foreign producers, however, have few inhibitions, not only in combining corporations but in regulating markets, production, prices. Thus last week a group of British and South American tin men formed the British-American Corp. with the avowed purpose of stabilizing the price of tin at ?265 a long ton ($1,284). This price would be the equivalent of about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around...