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...York City does not lie in one county but in five: New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx and Richmond (Staten Island). Tammany, the Democratic organization of New York County, used to be in the position of the Mother Country of an empire, controlling as the oldest and largest member the city government to which all were tributary. In 1920 Tammany's territory, Manhattan, was still the biggest member of the empire, had about 40% of the city's registered voters. Today it has only about 25% of the voters. If the five boroughs of the city (coterminous...
...Labor pleas that the proposed Jewish State created by partition would be "too small," peppery Conservative Lieut. Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson retorted: "The largest possible Palestine could not hold 10% of the world's persecuted Jews...
...into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw contracts. Mme Lupescu for years was in mortal terror of assassination by Rumania's anti-Semitic Iron Guard, more recently has been famed as its "largest contributor." Last week this able junk-dealer's daughter seemed on the point of realizing a majestic ambition: a second Nahlin cruise, this time with the world's tabloids headlining Mme Lupescu...
Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...
Brazil is the second largest world export market in South America, and President Vargas has simply obtained a golden bagatelle for use in exchange operations to keep the Brazilian milreis pegged to the dollar at its present worth of about 6^. This pegging will be "within certain limits," Brazilian Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa and Secretary Hull announced at Washington, without disclosing the limits. Only as needed by Brazil will the $60,000,000 in gold be sold by the U. S. Treasury, a few millions at a clip. Although earmarked for Brazil it will not leave...