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Last week Minister von Baligand marched down the Lisbon quay in splendid regalia, went out to inspect the German warship Konigsberg which is now visiting Portugal. Presently, in the Captain's barge, he returned to shore. As he stepped upon the dock a demented man whipped out a Mauser pistol, shot Kate's friend's husband dead...
...history: roustabout on Lisbon docks, sailor, medaled hero. Once he saved eight persons in a fire at sea, was scarred himself. As a ring fighter he is inexperienced. Bertys Perry, his French-American manager, was obliged to teach him not to slug, how to uppercut. Last week he was preparing to sail for the U. S. He wants a Labor Day bout with that Italian Brobdingnagian, Primo Camera (height 6 ft. 6 1/2 in.; weight...
...leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony...
...From Lisbon to the Azores...
...President Hoover last week promoted Fred Morris Bearing, career diplomat of Columbia', Mo., from Minister to Portugal to Ambassador to Peru. He appointed John Glover South of Kentucky to succeed Mr. Dearing at Lisbon. Also appointed: Charles B. Rugg of Worcester, Mass., to be an Assistant Attorney General...