Word: rutenberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these facts tended to be played down by loyal Jewish correspondents in Palestine until last week. Then suddenly the story spilled out. Everything was all right now-Pincus Rutenberg had taken charge...
Enigmatic Pincus Rutenberg is an ex-Russian, an ex-soldier of the late Tsar Nicholas II, and the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-Government of Russia. When he sought refuge in London, such statesmen as the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill praised him for having done his policeful best in Moscow to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky. Soon a syndicate of British and Zionist capitalists sent him out to found the Palestine Electric Corp. (TIME, March 4). Today he is the Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened...
...Dobbie were in Palestine, mightfully striving to restore order and protect not only the large cities but such strategic towns as El Abadiyeh and Jur-el-Mujami (see map), twin sites of the chief generating stations of the Palestine Power Trust, founded and managed by famed, dynamic Zionist Pincus Rutenberg (TIME, Mar. 4). Neither bristling, florid, militant General Dobbie nor the cold, curt High Commissioner made the smallest vestige of an answer to the week's most vital question: Why were not adequate British forces rushed to Palestine three weeks ago when the Wailing Wall riots unmistakably threatened...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
Though the "P. E." is in its infancy, Pinchas Rutenberg has already announced plans for a 50,000 acre irrigation system; and for a "P. E." finance corporation to start and develop enterprises dependent upon electric power. By the time Great Britain's mandate over Palestine expires, it is quite possible that Pinchas Rutenberg will have developed a vertical and horizontal trust so vast that the only way of adequately protecting the capital involved will be to create the Seventh Dominion. Certainly the degraded and impoverished natives of Palestine, who would be raised up to "Rutenberg prosperity" during such...