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...order to better understand this term and the cause for its usage, I would like to question the editorial staff of TIME as to the origin and present application of the term "greaser...
...Origin. Surreptitiously circulated in Russia during the War, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion spread through Europe in 1917 largely because they furnished a handy explanation of the Russian Revolution. They reached the U. S., were reprinted in Henry Ford's anti-Semitic Dearborn Independent. They are currently in circulation* along with such kindred pamphlets as The Plan in Action, by "Earnest Sincere," who declares that Bernard Mannes Baruch is slated to be "Sponsor" for the Western Hemisphere under "Akad Ha'Am, the Unknown and Uncrowned King of Jewry throughout the earth...
Both cases are to consist of appeals from the judgments rendered in the Superior Court of the Ames Competition, to be reviewed and corrected in the so-called Supreme Court of the Competition, and are of purely mythical origin, brain children of Dean Pound of the Law School. The first, that of John R. Byer vs. Sells Motors, Inc., will have as counsel representatives of the Pollock Club, for the plaintiff, Charles Sanford Maddock and Martin A. Jurow...
...easiest natural manner, so that his characteristic tonal quality, intonation and inflection may be observed. Included with each record will be an index card to be filled out with information concerning the influences to which he has been subjected, both hereditary and environmental, as well as his parents' origin, his schooling, and any other influences of which he may be conscious. These cards will be put on file in Widener Library with the records where they will always be available to students in phonetics and linguistics...
...five brothers, Don Gelasio fled the incredibly gloomy and sordid palace of the stingy Caetani in Rome to graduate from Columbia University's School of Mines in 1903 as "Mr. Gelasio Caetani." He then became a "wop" digging gold in Idaho for John Hays Hammond. "Knowledge of my origin," said Prince Caetani afterward, "would have spoiled my camaraderie with my fellow miners...