Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share stock transfer tax and 5% levy on brokers' gross income, not only the Stock Exchange but the Curb and Produce Exchanges, the over-the-counter dealers and all appendages of Manhattan's vast securities business were ready to join the Jersey hegira. For Mayor O'Brien had inadvertently brought home a great truth to the men who buy & sell the nation's securities: that whether or not Mayor O'Brien's taxes were imposed, security dealers would be far better off in New Jersey than in New York State, 1) They would avoid...
...French Alsace and the southern Rhine. Last week Palatinate Commissioner Birker issued an order freezing all postal savings and bank accounts of Jews in the province until their outstanding debts had been paid. This was explained as a move to prevent a wholesale dodging of obligations by a Jewish hegira over the French Border...
...Florida in picture hats. Now this, to the Vagabond, is altogether fitting. Not the vanishing of the pomp of little circumstance, but the drifting off of the girls. They have gone up into the collar like good Clydesdales and true and they should have rest from labor. But the Hegira, gentlemen, leaves Harvard strangely quiet and sorrowful and alone...
...Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years ago, sees the ultimate doom of capitalism--unless something unusual should happen, of course. He shows Marx's appeal to the underdog as the reason for this, an appeal outweighing Marx's theoretical inadequacies. He finds Russia to be the only country today in which...
...hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie [Bertrand Russell...