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...Cardozos, a family of Sephardic Jews moved from London to New York city in 1752, founded there a line of merchants and lawyers. Their Benjamin was the second Jew appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York...
Flung into a melon market near the Central Police Station on the waterfront at Haifa, Palestine's chief port, an exploding bomb last week killed 14 Arabs. A riot developed. Blood-hungry Moslems, convinced that a Jew had hurled the missile, began to pummel and stone Jewish passersby. Shots were fired into the predominantly Arab crowd, increased the casualties to 21 Arabs killed, 92 wounded; six Jews killed, eleven wounded...
...land that is holy to the Christian, Jewish and Moslem world these latest, severest incidents of Palestine's long terror struck two novel notes. For the first time in recent history the Jews had definitely become the aggressors. In the casualties, they had come out ahead. For every Jew killed two Arabs met death. That young Palestinian Jews might one day decide to fight Arab terrorism with Jewish terrorism had long been feared by leading Zionists. Jews and the governing British alike believed last week that loose in Palestine was a band of young, venge ful Jews, popularly known...
Other explorers have contributed more to geographical knowledge, but the most picturesque, the heartiest and the biggest storyteller of the lot is 52-year-old Peter Freuchen (Eskimo, Arctic Adventure). A giant, bearded, Danish Jew. Freuchen quit medical school at 20 to join a Greenland expedition, married an Eskimo woman by whom he had two children, lived 18 years among the Eskimos as trader and hunter...
...added a new decree whose simple purpose was to suffocate what is left of Jewish economic life. Main provisions: 1) Jewish concerns will be identified, probably with special signs on the place of business; 2) if one member of the board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company will be Jewish. Furthermore, "Aryan" trading with Jews will be considered a "deliberate demonstration against the Government's attitude on the Jewish question...