Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squabble painful to U. S. Jewry developed over the proceeds ($15,000 net) of a charity banquet to be given in honor of shy, universal-minded Albert Einstein in Manhattan March 15 when it developed that Jacob Landau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had approached more than one organization before getting American Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine to serve as sponsor for the feast. Said the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate (Jewish): "Mr. Landau . . . tied up Professor Einstein's appearance and then peddled his offers to various organizations on a commission basis." In the general clamor to find...
...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...
...opinion would never sanction the leasing of public lands to Jews, and the British Government has never attempted such a course, but private lands belonging to the Emir are a different matter. Last week Emir Abdullah granted a six-month option to lease his new lands to the Palestine Jewish Agency which has been barred by Palestine Moslems from obtaining further lands there. To Britain's accommodating Emir, the Jews will pay an annual rental of ?2,000 ($10,000 at par, $6,700 today) for 33 years, with privilege of extending their lease for a total...
Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...
...Zemurray-Cutter feud is 20 years old. Victor Cutter was opening new tropical divisions for United Fruit. Samuel Zemurray, Polish-Jewish immigrant who out of his savings as a fruit jobber in New Orleans had formed Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co., was trying to wrest control of the Caribbean Sea from United. They clashed in Guatemala when each backed a different country in the dispute, not yet settled, over the Guatemalan-Honduras boundary line. They clashed in Honduras when United invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate...