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...brokers. The plebeian New York Evening Journal even mailed out to all Stock Exchange members straw ballots which so alarmed the nominating committee that it dispatched a plea over the ticker requesting members to refrain from any & all unofficial voting. And from his chambers New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora issued a hasty denial that he sought to influence the coming election by an article on the stockmarket which he lately wrote for Collier...
Wrote Christopher Columbus: "In the same month that Their Majesties [King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the Kingdom and its territories-in that same month they gave me the order to undertake my expedition of discovery...
Jewry's answer to Ferdinand & Isabella was to declare in 1492 a Jewish boycott of Spain which was still in effect last week. For 443 years Orthodox Jews have eschewed trading with Spain or felt twinges of conscience for doing so. Last week in Warsaw the hoary Boycott of Spain was ended at last for Polish Jews by their Rabbinate...
...Clifton Ferdinand Kann '37, of New York City, has been elected assistant Varsity baseball manager for this year. During his Senior year he will be Varsity manager...
Flavius Searle Scholarship: Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn...