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...pros and antis agreed on the probable result. Said the pros (mostly U. S. sugar-beet growers): sugar imports will drop, a young U. S. industry will thrive lustily. Said the antis (led by potent Manhattan bankers with investments in Cuba): in competition with duty-free Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Cuba will be ruined...
...Also nominated: Nicholas Roosevelt, New York Times editorial writer, third cousin of Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico, to be Vice Governor-General of the Philippines...
Robert Szold, 40, becomes Chairman of the Administrative Committee, and so the actual head of U. S. Zionism. A brilliant Manhattan lawyer, he was (1914-15) Assistant Attorney-General of Porto Rico, assistant (1915-18) to Solicitor General John William Davis. Mrs. Szold (Zip S. Falk of Savannah) is a member of Bryn Mawr's summer school administrative committee, is President of Hadassah women s Zionist organization. The Szolds live with their three young daughters at Pelham, New York residential suburb...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...
...happened to strike such a line of difficult stocks. Kindly have statement made out showing all sales and purchases since last statement. . . . Managed after hard struggle to land $400 which I am enclosing. ... I am being [kept] on edge, and fear of flop in the Paige, Butterick, Porto Rico and Moon have conspired to induce pessimism. . . . Never wire Washington unless I give definite instruction. Always causes unpleasant complications...