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...STOCK EXCHANGE UNDER INDICTMENT. To casual readers it of course suggested malpractice, dishonesty, perhaps collapse of the Exchange. To people familiar with the case, however, it seemed more an unfortunate technicality. Two dishonest employes of the Bank of Italy had been operating "dummy"' accounts through the firm of Leib, Keyston & Co., whose senior partner. George N. Keyston, California socialite, is president of the Exchange. Other San Francisco brokers, claiming the firm could not have known these accounts were false, refused to receive customers who wanted to switch from Leib. Keyston, refused to accept the permanent resignation of President Keyston...
...Grand Rabbi at the moment when four young men regarded his naked body with disapproval, poking it in tender spots? Not only was he the son of a Grand Rabbi and even the grandson of a Grand Rabbi but he was a Grand Rabbi himself; his name was Jehuda Leib Twersky, he was of venerable age, he came from Antwerp and he had a long, black, fluffy beard. The only clue to his thoughts was a remark he made when it was all over: "I believe that it was the most wretched experience of my whole life...
...worth of diamonds still remained to be accounted for, they looked for new victims. Antwerp is one of the two capitals of diamonds. Hence they looked for a passenger from Antwerp. On the White Star liner Olympic lists, they found the name of Grand Rabbi Jehuda Leib Twersky. Hence, oh landing, they ducked into his cabin, ran a comb through the silky mesh of his beard and made him uncover his wrinkled body to their gaze...
Having thus rudely probed his tvillim, the young men apologized to Grand Rabbi Leib Twersky publicly whereat he observed, "This is a strange country but I like "it." There were no further smuggling arrests last week...
PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 1895. - Charles C. Harrison today made a donation of $500,000 to the University of Pennsylvania in honor of his father, the late George Leib Harrison, L.L.D. This gift was presented at the monthly meeting of the trustees of the university. Mr. Harrison, who has for the past year been acting provost since the retirement of Dr. Wm. Pepper, was elected provost...