By Shirley Frondorf
In 1982, a sensational homicide trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated during the criminal group. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his spouse by way of stabbing her 26 instances, used to be acquitted; his criminal protection portrayed the sufferer as an overwhelming "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses could have provoked her violent finish. reading the constitution of the defense's case, Frondorf, an lawyer who was once formerly a psychiatric social employee, follows the topic that made Elana Steinberg the villain, rather than the sufferer, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, strengthened via testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg dedicated the crime whereas sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly caused by the intemperate spending of his spouse. Frondorf recreates the trial whose final result scarred the tightly knit Jewish neighborhood of Phoenix.
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And one has been "purged" by the lavish use of money, viz: Senator Holt of West Virginia. 59 X. World War I "We shall force the Christians into wars by exploiting their pride and their stupidity. "—From Funeral Oration of Rabbi Reichhorn. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany was a very vain man who loved publicity and imagined himself an autocrat, but in fact he was only a figurehead, as King George VI of England now is, and as most of the European monarchs are now and were at that time. The Jews encouraged him in this delusion and fed his vanity, while they operated his government.
C, Dec. 20, 1939. Rothschilds and that J. P. " If true, it explains the fact that there is never any competition between Morgan & Company and Kuhn, Loeb & Company; on the other hand, there is always the closest cooperation. It is a circumstance worthy of note that the Temporary National Economic Committee has not investigated the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company and that this firm was not investigated by the former senate investigating committee. Is it only an accidental circumstance that Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
In America the ownership is not so complete. It is estimated that the Jews own 80% of the metropolitan press and 100% of the news and advertising agencies and cinema. Fortunately, their ownership of the small daily papers and country papers appears to be negligible; their influence with these papers is through their news agencies from which the country press obtain news, and their advertising agencies through which they obtain advertisements. The Jews also own about 80% of the radio broadcasting stations through their ownership of Columbia Broadcasting Svs- tern, Radio Corporation of America, and Mutual Broadcasting Company.