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...immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner was this "leak" well out in London than Jewish leaders in the Empire capital brought their influence to bear. The result was last week's dispatch of enough troops to squelch the Arabs and in due time make Palestine a real "Jewish Homeland...
...aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...
...case this did not squelch his critics who have called his policy that of a poltroon, the Prime Minister said that he is "quite content to be called a coward," if that is the name people give to his avoidance of a war between Britain and Italy. He added: "Though I wish to retire some day, I shall retire when I think fit. It is for me to decide, and for no one to dictate...
What this sentence implied-publication of a list of profiteering exporters or a New Deal bill to crack down on them-hardly mattered. To bankers negotiating foreign loans a negative shake of the State Department's head has almost always been enough to squelch any deal. Though it is unthinkable that any administration should deliberately use laws enacted for other purposes to harass those who do defy its wishes, most businessmen know they would be foolhardy indeed to risk offending the eternal bureaucracy which at any time is able to do a number of unthinkable things...
Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...