Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiasm, Miss Thompson suggests: "Viennese industrialists might not only bring over their trained employes who would compete with no class of workers in existence in America, but also their lists of customers [in South America, etc.]. . . . This sort of industry does not compete with any existing American industry...
...prove that such a scheme has worked out on a small scale, and that Germany could be persuaded to enter into it, Miss Thompson cites the little-known Ha'avara arrangements between Germany and the Jews in Palestine. Ha'avara, an organization for the transfer of .capital of German-Jewish emigrants, five years ago succeeded in getting Germany to accept frozen German-Jewish funds to pay for exports. German exporters get paid for the goods they ship to Palestine out of earmarked emigrant funds (blocked marks). By this method, some 82,000,000 marks in goods have been...
...simpler scheme than Miss Thompson's for getting Jews out of Germany, and one already in use has been discovered by German Jews themselves. Every day dozens of Jews file into U. S. consulates and offices of U. S. firms to pore over New York City and Chicago city directories. From these they copy addresses of U. S. Jews to whom they might be related, hoping that letters to the U. S. will bring new-found relatives and sympathizers willing to arrange their passage...
...years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
...risky for an Asiatic to frustrate sahibs. The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy...