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...York. The most violent boycott scheme came from the same Lawyer Aaron Sapiro who once sued Henry Ford for $1,000,000 for defaming the Jewish race. Acting as though there really existed that chief bugaboo of Jew-baiters, a secret international Jewish commercial organization, he proposed an international boycott of German goods by Jewish importers and commission merchants "from Vladivostok and Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg." He offered to organize a general staff to help importers all over the world find substitutes for German goods and send weekly bulletins to leaders of Jewish communities in every city...
After many a mass meeting, Chicago's 14,000 long unpaid and now embattled school teachers had by last week become an active organization, with an "All-City Publicity Committee" headed by Teacher Mary L. Leitch of Hyde Park High School, with Lawyer Aaron Sapiro of Chicago & Manhattan as counsel. Three weeks ago the teachers received $2,224,143 in real cash, bringing their salaries up to April 1. Last fortnight the Chicago Herald & Examiner obtained from Germany by telephoto a letter from junketing Mayor Anton Cermak authorizing the issuance of $6,750,000 of tax anticipation warrants, some...
...collectors, suggested the Committee. Let them put on a four-day drive for the $45,000,000 in 1930 taxes which is earmarked for the school fund. The teachers could work in their own districts, where they would be likely to know the property owners. Said Counsel Sapiro: "Naturally [the teachers] want their pay . . . and they are willing to ask the bodies that appointed them to stand on 50,000 doorsteps and bring the school tax to the Collector in their own hands...
Regular counsel for the Star is Watson, Gage, Ess, Groner & Barnett. Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring...
...equipment, practice "big business" sales methods. Sixty fruit and truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president of U. S. Grain Corp. Its counsel: Aaron Sapiro, famed co-operative organiser who sued Henry Ford for libel. Its promise to city housewives: Fresher, riper fruit and vegetables by reducing marketing delays from farm to table. Its hope: to borrow from the Federal Farm Board...