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...President Hoover was 56 last week. Boy Scouts gave him, as their honorary president, a carved buffalo horn. At camp he had an angel-food cake with 56 candles. Dr. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, said the President was in "fine shape." Since inaugural the President's hair above the temples has turned white...
Diamond men reviewing these statistics last week had every reason to be well pleased. Of these none should have been more so than Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, ringleader and probably richest of the tycoons who form the Diamond Syndicate which, as everyone knows, controls the price and production of almost all the world's diamonds. But though Solly Joel may well have rejoiced in his 1929 profits he could not have forgotten that less than a month ago his Diamond Syndicate was ordered by the British Government to pay ?350,000 to a suing company. No matter how rich...
...fraud. Settlement of the suit announced last month from the King's Bench awarded United Diamonds ?325,000 plus ?25,000 cost. Although the fraud charge was withdrawn, awarding of the sum to United Diamonds was tantamount to admitting that fraud did exist. It could not cheer Solomon Joel to believe that the British Government harbored such a suspicion and was furthermore quite prepared to act upon...
Most picturesque of diamond tycoons is Solly Joel. He and his two brothers, Jack and Woolf, left London's Petticoat Lane (now officially known as Middlesex Street) some 50 years ago, went diamond hunting in South Africa. Their maternal uncles, Harry and Barney Barnato had preceded them, had somehow garnered a few thousand pounds, bought some claims at Kimberley. Shortly thereafter the Barnatos and the Joels found themselves in the eclectic company of world's richest men. In 1884 Brother Jack was involved in the Illicit Buying Case, jumped bail in South Africa, returned to England where...
Like its predecessor, this book is a collection of Bible stories told in darkey dialect, with darkey psychology, darkey embellishments and modernizations. Sly, humorous, kindly, they are reminiscent of the late great Joel Chandler Harris's tales of Uncle Remus. A sample: "So Solomon started kingin' up and down de road, a-bowin' and tippin' his crown to de ladies and makin' riddles at de men folks, and he was a mighty good king...