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...there were nearly 20,000 Semites in Mexico, 75% of them concentrated about Mexico City. They peddled, drove taxis, set up small businesses, shrewdly undersold easy-going native merchants. Last spring the National Revolutionary Party, of which President Ortiz Rubio is titular head, started a violent campaign to oust Jews from Mexico. Permits allowing them to trade in the markets were recalled. As a result, some Jews in Mexico City are starving. All, says Correspondent Brenner, live in daily dread of a pogrom...
...mainsail-rigged dory, his first cruising on his father's steam yacht. He graduated from Harvard in 1907, was admitted to the bar in New York five years later. As representative of the Rockefellers (his sister Abby married John Davison Rockefeller Jr.), he led the fight to oust Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark...
...credit and prosperity of the entire district which the Kansas City Star claims to serve. . . . We were told that it was the purpose [of the Kansas bank commissioner, in trying to prohibit sale of Cities Service stock] to throw our companies into the hands of receivers and oust us from the State of Kansas. I think we will be able to prove that the Kansas City Star instigated all of this . . . and that Governor Woodring was a mere tool . . . forced to do the bidding of the Kansas City Star." Also Mr. Doherty charged that Publisher Longan...
...those offenses, Oilman Doherfy promised destruction of the Star. He would, however, grant amnesty if the Star's trustees would oust the present management and place in control "honorable, constructive men." He made this suggestion in all seriousness and explained elaborately how the trustees might justify such action...
Pressure by Courtesan Magda to oust Queen Helen (not merely from power but physically from Rumania) has been merciless for months. Not long ago an English friend of the hard-pressed Queen received word from her that "surrender seems inevitable." Last week Bucharest buzzed with the rumored terms of surrender: Queen Helen was said to have demanded a capital sum which would yield $40,000 in annual interest. His Majesty was said to be beating Her Majesty down, offering "$40,000 a year guaranteed by the Rumanian Government"?a totally different thing...