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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famine sufferers in Ireland. In 1922 he went to Central Europe and Russia in the interest of the American Relief Administration and the Joint Distribution Committee. Four years later he headed the United Jewish Campaign to raise $25,000,000, and in 1929 the Palestine Emergency Fund. At present he is national chairman of China Famine Relief. When he arrived in Manhattan two years ago from Detroit to engage in banking, he was welcomed with a testimonial dinner attended by 2.000 businessmen, including onetime Jew-Baiter Henry Ford. Than David Abraham Brown, the American Hebrew could have found few backers...
...reduction of 20% in all doles, an increase in contributions by workers and employers to the dole fund...
...June 15). He was accused on two counts: 1) misleading Royal Mail stockholders in 1926 and 1927 by publishing statements showing annual net profits of over a million dollars, when the company was actually losing nearly three times that much and dividends were being paid from a secret reserve fund of which the stockholders had no knowledge; 2) issuing a false prospectus of debenture stocks "with intent to induce persons to entrust or advance property to the company...
...action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None of the actors in Heaven Bound receives wages. The first production cost $155, realized a fat profit for Big Bethel's trustee fund with admissions at 25?. Not very many white people have yet seen Heaven Bound but most of those who have were observed to look sorry with everyone else for the Wayward Girl, smile and hum in their throats when the Saints started singing...
...would not be the Metropolitan troupe which Senator Robert Johns Bulkley brings to the city every year through his Northern Ohio Opera Association, but a gigantic al fresco show, home-produced in the month-old Municipal Stadium. Beneficiary of the performance was the Cleveland Press's milk fund. Purpose was to entertain those of the citizenry who like music and those who like spectacles. A further purpose was to illuminate iron-mongering Cleveland's place on the nation's cultural...