Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...
Barney Barnato. Solomon ("Solly") Joel's re-emergence into the news revived interest in his dare-devil uncle, the late famed Barney Barnato, ne Isaacs, one-time Jewish peddler and contortionist on the streets of London, founder of the fabulous diamond fortune of the Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found...
...daughter Leah, "the Pearl of Kimberly," mistress of unstinted millions, became involved in a love affair with Woolf Joel (son of her father's nephew, Solomon Joel), quarreled with him (he was shot down later under mysterious circumstances), married and divorced a poor violinist, and has now been married a total of three times to Carlyle Blackwell (U. S.-born, onetime famed British cinema actor) with whom she lives vivaciously in Europe...
...eight juniors elected, and a large portion of the 22 seniors. Despite the snobbish evidences of class prejudice which, at such racially-tinged colleges as Harvard, as once at Columbia, the Nordic students betray toward their cleverer competitors such men as Bleiweiss, Stamm, Bernstein, Sobell, Isaacs, Swirske, Abrahams and Solomon, won their places by merit...
...first four magna cum lande men to become members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society by automatic election were Maurice Irving Abrams '27 of Fine Pennsylvania, Bernard Bandler 2nd '27 of New York City. Philip Solomon '27 of St. Louis, Missouri, and Stuart Brown Summerville '27 of Hartford, Connecticut...