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...situation. Jews were invited by President Calles in 1924 to enter the country, colonize, farm, keep shops. The agricultural program proved unfeasible, but by 1927 there were nearly 20,000 Semites in Mexico, 75% of them concentrated about Mexico City. They peddled, drove taxis, set up small businesses, shrewdly undersold easy-going native merchants. Last spring the National Revolutionary Party, of which President Ortiz Rubio is titular head, started a violent campaign to oust Jews from Mexico. Permits allowing them to trade in the markets were recalled. As a result, some Jews in Mexico City are starving. All, says Correspondent...
...like Brodie and get away with it forever. A big men's-furnish-ing company from Edinburgh opened a branch shop next to Brodie's, undersold him, drove him gradually out of business. He welcomed his wife's death because it let him engage buxom young Barmaid Nancy as "housekeeper"; whiskey and Nancy became his crutches. Then Son Matt came whining home from India, hung around the house till one fine day he and Nancy went off to South America. Brodie leaned more heavily on the bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning...
Sunny's Cloud. For some years the 25 service stations of Sunny Service Oil Co. have undersold national oil companies in Detroit. Last week Col. Walter Corydon Cole of Union League Club of Michigan accused Sunny Service of buying gasoline from U. S. S. R. at 3½? a gallon, "laid down" in Detroit. That is only a fraction more than mere transport charges of gasoline from Texas to Detroit...
...Acute Shortage." Indignant, the British National Farmers' Union complained that its members are being undersold in the home market by "Russian grain, fruit, butter, eggs, sugar and timber . . . despite the acute shortage of these products in Russia...
...Forget it!" screeched the Gimbels advertisement, "Don't you believe for a minute that you can save a cent (to say nothing of six per cent) by buying for cash. . . . Gimbels prices are often a dollar less but rarely a penny more. . . . Gimbels will not be undersold...