Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arabs had no way of knowing what was in the report except from Jewish news dispatches from London which said the Royal Commission would report that "the national aspirations of the Jews and Arabs in Palestine are irreconcilable" and that a solution can be found "only in the establishment of two separate States and the division of the country between Jews and Arabs...
...disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania for the Democrats in 1932. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to take notice of him. He was made...
...BACHE, well-known Jewish financier and philanthropist, head of the firm of the same name in Manhattan, organized two Canadian corporations. To one of them, the Wenonah† Development Co. Ltd., he transferred $13,000,000 of assets in 1930. Thereafter the income from this money escaped the high personal surtaxes which Mr. Bache would have had to pay if he received it directly. From his company he borrowed $2,300,000 in 1932 and in 1934 the interest which he then paid the company canceled out his remaining U. S. income, thereby making him virtually income-tax-free...
...under Premier Blum, not only asked Deputy Blum to become Minister of State in his attempted Cabinet but observed to reporters: "I have just been talking to M. Blum, my predecessor and perhaps my successor!" Down but not out was Léon Blum, hailed this week by confident Jewish and Socialist friends as "the first Jew and the first Socialist to become Premier of France-but not the last...
...will get the president of the Protestant Ministers' Union, the Catholic Bishop and the Jewish Rabbi, together with the President of the Chamber of Commerce, to join with you in leading a mob on the jail, I will turn the prisoner over to you-otherwise you will never get him, for I now have the jail packed with National Guardsmen." No mob came and the prisoner was legally executed about 90 days later...