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...undercurrent of talk about the "Jewish influence" in Washington had become such a steady buzz throughout the land that the same magazine was prompted to publish another article entitled "Exploding the Myth of a 'Jewish Hierarchy'." By calling the roll of Jews in the Administration, Arthur T. Weil aimed to prove their number is piteously small. The roll...
...whatever came into my mind. . . . You can't let those things get on your nerves, you know. You've got to handle them in a calm way." After nine minutes of palaver a third voice broke in and told Mr. Rosenwald that police had nabbed one Charles Weil, 29, unemployed clerk...
Held in St. Louis for possession of $20,000 in bonds believed stolen was famed, suave Swindler "Yellow Kid" Weil, 54. Asked what had become of his beard, he replied: "Gone since 1918. It was like this. With that yellow-red beard that got me my name, I looked just like J. Ham [Hamilton] Lewis, the Senator from Illinois. . . . Sometimes it caused complications for me and, I suppose, for him, too. So I did the handsome thing...
Morris Shapiro, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Chester Smith, Jr., of Detroit, Michigan; Andrew Joseph Torielli, of Watertown, Massachusetts; Richard Williams Vilter, of Cincinnati, Ohio; George Beard Walker, of Albany, New York; Arthur William Well, of Cedarhurst, New York; David Maxwell Weil, of Chicago, Illinois...
...ordered carabineers to raid all the jewelry shops in Santiago, a work they performed with a will. Lest this seizing of valuables from helpless jewelers be called "confiscation" the carabineers gave each jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister of Public Works, complained, "The Government offices seem to be full of merely curious visitors," shooed...