By Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins' first actual novel is additionally one among his strongest. by no means Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate story of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in New York's Hell's Kitchen. From that harassed and belittling begin, Frank works his method up, deciding upon the inaccurate part of the legislation to make a reputation for himself. At a tender age, he turns into one of many city's most deadly males, indulging in his ardour for strength, intercourse, and the easiest issues in life-whether or no longer they are often bought. First released in 1948, the unconventional begun Robbins' prolific profession after somebody made him a $100 wager that he couldn't write a bestseller. Twenty-six pot-boiling novels later, he proved the facility of his phrases. by no means Love a Stranger takes an unflinching examine a brand new York that's long past by-exposing lifestyles in the course of and after the good melancholy, whilst the syndicate governed town with no mercy.
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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.