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...grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the celebration was debonair Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., free on a stay of execution from a jail sentence in Manhattan for refusing to answer questions in the bankruptcy case of Sonora Products Co. In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register. Most famed living Biddies: retired Banker Alexander, onetime Boxer Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr., Major Charles J., War ace, Broker Craig Sr., Artist George, Explorer Nicholas...
There were until last week about 15,000 Chinese in Mexico.* They are not coolies. Most of them are prosperous, hard-working shopkeepers and farmers. In the northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa, Chinese merchants own about 80% of the grocery shops and vegetable markets. Indolent Mexicans regard the affluent Chinese with sullen eyes...
There exist several sorts of Mexican Ku Klux Klans. One of them is the Comite Nacionalista Anti-China de la Costa Occidental, known as the Anti-Chinese Society. This society resorted to an old law passed by the Sonora Legislature in 1919, providing that all industrial and mercantile establishments must employ 80% Mexicans. In March 1931 this law was amended to prevent the exclusion of naturalized Chinese clerks anxious to evade the law, but despite its severity no serious attempt was made to enforce it until last June...
Plutarco Elias Calles' son, Rodolfo, Governor of Sonora, looked on complacently as the Anti-Chinese Society, backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
...charges made last week were that Sonora Products Corp. (then Acoustic Products Co.) arranged to buy 200,000 shares of De Forest Radio Co. stock at 50? a share, but that the defendants took the stock themselves, sold it at big profits without telling shareholders or other directors. On an investment of $25,000 Mr. Biddle is supposed to have made a profit of $100,000. Irving Trust also claims that general mismanagement cost Sonora Products Corp. $3,000,000 in two years, that now creditors can get but 25? on the dollar...