Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...axiom that Jews are always plentiful as traders but scarce as tillers of the soil has been rudely upset by the Soviet regime in Russia. The State monopoly of trade has crowded out Jewish traders and forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...
...called Agro-Joint or "American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation." Though little famed, the Corporation has been functioning since 1924 in an effort to get Jews established as painlessly as possible on the rich farm lands granted them by the Soviet State in the Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia...
...Director of Agro-Joint is gray-haired and twinkling-eyed Dr. Joseph A, Rosen, a Russian-born agricultural expert who migrated to the U. S. but went. back to Russia after the War to assist the famine relief conducted by omnipresent Herbert Hoover...
From the founding of Agro-Joint in 1924 up to the present year, it has loaned out more than $3,000,000 to Jewish farmers in Soviet Russia and spent more than $400,000 in educating them in modern agricultural methods. The new subscription which was announced by Philanthropist Rosenwald, last week, will so broaden the work of Agro-Joint that it will merge into a new corporation to be founded for Jewish land settlement in Russia...
...Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning to set down her experiences and observations in almost 100,000 businesslike words...