Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This area is about the size of Michigan, has a comfortable climate, yet has a population of less than 100,000. It is generally considered an arid country, yet our own government reports at least 5,000,000 acres of excellent farming land, with more available after suitable irrigation. There is excellent commercial fishing and some mining there also...
Since the U. S. is bound to figure financially in any Jewish territorial solution anyway, and since Mexico owes us a mounting debt for recent land confiscations, and since a good portion of Lower California is already owned by U. S. citizens (and therefore presumably confiscatable), therefore Mexico's debt might be applied against the purchase price of this territory which we could then present to the Jewish people...
...hold no brief for A. Hitler & Co., any more than I do for the mob lynchings and mob burnings of our chivalrous South, but I would like to suggest, before such a suggestion would land me in a concentration camp as a "pro-Nazi," that TIME keep its head until such time as a more pronounced government attitude makes propaganda safer than truth...
...banking. Such deals have caused rumor that Bancamerica's new Chairman Stewart is merely a Giannini frontman. He is more than that. Born on a Missouri farm in 1881, he made a fortune in San Francisco real estate, has lately majored in mortgages and mines as well as land banks in which he has an investment of some $19,000,000. He claims to have had no vacation in 35 years, plays golf in the 70s and on his desk has a picture, not of Giannini, but of Napoleon...
...Land and water where they...