Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fund lias collected $7,204,439 to finance the movement, of which 60% has come from America. True, the Jews of America are the richest Jews in the world, but the Jews of America are far from united in support of the Zionist cause. Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, is a direct opponent. Other prominent Jews, such as Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, while favorable to the movement, have not approved of the policy of the Foundation Fund, believing that the movement should be financed by private initiative rather than by the Fund...
...Turkey and Persia declared that it was impossible for their peasants to give up cultivating the poppy until other profitable crops were given them in return...
...eternal problem and source of trouble for the world. "The new Turkish Republic is the product of a radical transformation and vast reforms, abolition of the Califate separation of the State from religion, unification of education, etc., reforms which only a few years ago the world thought Turkey utterly incapable of achieving. "The new mentality of Turkey may be summed up in a few words-jealous defense of the political and economic independence of the Turkish people against all and by all means possible; rapid and decisive strides along the road to civilization and progress, no territorial ambitions beyond...
...continued advance is attributed to unexpected purchases by Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria. The Orient has scrambled to buy the Australian wheat surplus, while that of Argentina has been scraped up by Portugal and other European countries. Most of the recent U.S. profits have accrued to speculators and traders rather than to the farmer who sold out freely between...
Possibly it amuses Trader Cutten to see the agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such...