Word: gem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week four sea post clerks aboard the United States liner President Roosevelt kept a 24-hr, guard over the ship's vault. Inside it reposed the famed Jonker diamond, world's largest uncut gem and the largest privately owned diamond anywhere. Discovered by a South African farmer named Jonker last year (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934), the stone weighs 726 carats (about five ounces), is bigger than...
...months ago a Manhattan gem dealer named Harry Winston bought the Jonkers diamond for $730,000, had it insured for $1,000,000 by St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. He was told that the best way to ship it from London to the U. S. was by registered first class mail. Because it was uncut, Dealer Winston had not a cent of duty to pay when it arrived last week. Total cost to Dealer Winston for getting his huge gewgaw across the Atlantic...
From London's gem district went word that the Jonker Diamond had been sold to a Manhattan dealer named Harry Winston. For the uncut, egg-sized stone which shrewd Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin...
...from Nurnberg came Germany's No. 1 Jew-baiter Julius Streicher stopping last week in Berlin to lead ar anti-Semitic parade with brass bands down Unter den Linden. His gem: "After this election Danzig will know what to with your - Jews! . . . The Leader, as we all know, promised the Poles not to touch the Corridor for ten years, and he will keep his word as usual, but the hour will still come...
...Goring's suite was the Saar's new Nazi governor, Josef Burckel. His gem to Danzig voters: "If the Marxists say Germany has brought in professional murderers, I say that German mothers ar happy that their sons are being taught to keep their mouths shut, and it is the pride of German fathers to say 'My son fought...