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...Goaded by the Dominican Torquemada, the King and Queen reluctantly signed an order for the expulsion of the Jews in the same year that their armies reduced Granada, the last stronghold of the Spanish Moors, and their protégé, Christopher Columbus, made his long voyage west. The beaten Moslems were permitted to remain in Spain-for a time-at the cost of paying their taxes to Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews were given a harsher option: join the church or get out. Writes Jesuit Historian James Brodrick: "The majority honorably and bravely chose exile...
Publisher Lindner's successor: Charles Mayer, 48, a Lindner protégé who went to the Examiner in 1926 direct from the University of California, has been business manager for the past 22 years...
...Protégé. In the Senate, 34-year-old Cabot Lodge was "the boy wonder." Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg took him under his wing (Vandenberg had known his grandfather, and admired the elder Lodge's biography of Alexander Hamilton as the best, up to the time Vandenberg wrote his own). Like Vandenberg, Lodge was labeled an isolationist, but he favored military preparedness, and called for conscription before President Roosevelt did. Domestically, his record was liberal, with a shrewd eye on his constituents. He was one of two Republicans to vote for the Wages and Hours Bill...
...Democratic Chairman Frank McKinney denounced termites before the assembled Democrats in New York, some termite inspection was going on in the background. McKinney was welcomed to New York by stories in the Herald Tribune charging that he is the political protégé of Democratic National Committeeman Frank M. McHale of Indiana...
...There, "Lightning Ken" Wherry parlayed his family's furniture business into a bigger furniture store, an automobile agency, a law office, a real-estate firm and an undertaking parlor. (Washington reporters, to his intense irritation, later dubbed him "The Merry Mortician.") When he shifted to politics as a protégé of liberal Senator George Norris, Wherry hustled up votes for the Republican state committee with the same zeal and the same methods he had used to open new selling territories or to organize the Pawnee County Fair. In 1942 he easily beat the venerable and ailing Norris...