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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With this ranch and his Mexican ranch with 40,000 head of cattle, his 24 newspapers, 9 magazines (2 of which are in England) along with his moving picture industry, all of which he keeps personally in touch with, he is very busy; and if anyone thinks Mr. Hearst has much time for play or vacation he is very much mistaken...
...reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago, was cruising comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...
...knew no better than to chase and shoot them down one by one. With his last shot he wounded a peasant who had rushed up brandishing an axe. As the man, for whom he had often worked for nothing, fell, Poor José seized his axe and split his head in twain...
Zionists. In Pittsburgh last week met the embattled Women's Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah. Mrs. Zip Szold, Honorary Secretary, read a report commending the policy of President Irma L. Lindheim, who had criticized the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Louis Lipsky (see col. 2). Soon afterward, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. Lindheim president...
...Hebrews in Palestine, last week withdrew as president. He wished to retire, Louis Lipsky asserted, "for the sake of harmony and peace." The day after he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection, there emerged, in the form of a letter to Dr. Chaim Weizman, head of the World Zionist Organization, a report from the committee of judges who have been investigating charges of incompetence made against Louis Lipsky. The judges found that Louis Lipsky had been guilty of irregularities, excessions of authority, loose management and the like, as in the instance of endorsing a note...