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...sure yet that what happened in Germany couldn't happen here," a Canadian interviewer was told in London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...
...peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...
...resigned his Vienna teaching post to do so. Already in Palestine, or easily available all over Europe, were scores of refugee Jewish musicians. It was easy to get, as permanent administrators of the new orchestra's trust fund, such influential Jews as Financier Israel Sieff of London, Belgian Industrialist Dannie Heineman. Palestine's Lieut. Col. Frederick Hermann Kisch. Palestine's top-notch lawyer, Solomon Horowitz. Dr. Albert Einstein took the honorary presidency of the U. S. branch of the organization...
...Today for the first time in seven years the banker, the storekeeper, the small factory owner, the industrialist, can all sit back and enjoy the company of their own ledgers. They are in the black and that is where we want them to be; that is where our policies aim that they shall be; that is where we intend them to be in the days to come...