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Searinghouse. In Salonica, Greece, thieves ransacked Nikolaos Youlias' warehouse, burned all the checks they found in his safe, left a note urging him to leave some money next time...
F.D.R. to Churchill: "What do you think of the possibility of our inducing U.J. to meet with us in Piraeus, Salonica or Constantinople...
Trustees of Anatolia College, Salonica, Greece, convened in Sanders Theatre Saturday and conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Conductor Dimitri Metropoulos of the Minneapolis Symphony...
Speaking of gambusia (TIME, May 1 under Italy) did you know that this useful little minnow was first imported into Greece from Rome some years ago by the American Farm School on the outskirts of Salonica, to combat malaria. deadly scourge of Macedonia and all the Near East? The undrained swamps and ubiquitous containers for conserving the scant rainfall create breeding places for the anopheles mosquito which is the disease carrier. The School now propagates gambusia and each year plants large numbers of them where the)7 will do the most good by eating the larvae of the mosquito. Thanks...
...Salonica the unwritten Greek law about Jews worked again last week. Eight Greeks, shown by overwhelming testimony to have set the Jewish quarter of the city afire last June, were called by the Greek prosecutor "guilty of excesses which are a blot on civilization"-but he asked acquittal for six of the blotters and only four months imprisonment for the other two. Promptly the Greek jury, unwilling to punish even two blotters, acquitted all of them...