“The International Jew” Study Hour presents:  Carolyn Yeager  and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 46, “Jewish Degradation of American Baseball.”

Tonight’s chapter tells how Jewish entrance into  professional and major league baseball resulted in a general lowering into “show business” with  a gambling agenda dominant.  Sportsmanship gives way to money-money-money.  Some of the characters, good and bad, who are mentioned:

• Righteous Judge A.J. Landis of Chicago (right, center), who was picked by the Jews to become the one-man head of the National League in a plan to get him off the bench;
• Ban Johnson, autocratic head of the National Baseball Commission, was on the receiving end of many Jewish  “get Johnson” schemes;
• Harry Frazee, former burlesque house kingpin and prize fight fixer, bought the Boston American baseball club;
• The Ascher brothers, owners of a string of Chicago motion picture theaters, offered a million and a half dollars for the Chicago American League club.

Image:  From Who’s Who in Major League Baseball, edited by Harold (Speed) Johnson:  L-R: Tom Shibe, Judge Landis, William L. Veeck [September 10, 1929].  Veeck was a sports writer who became president of Chicago Cubs from 1919 till his death in October, 1933. 

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

“The International Jew” Study Hour presents:  Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 30:  “How Jews Capitalized a Protest Against Jews.”

When the Theatrical Trust was finally broken, it was done by another group of Jews led by David Belasco and the Shubert brothers (J.J. and Lee Shubert shown at right in the 1920’s).  The Shuberts turned the theatrical business into real estate speculation and made more money in theatrical leases and buildings. By the eve of the Depression (1930), the Shuberts owned, operated, managed or booked close to a thousand houses across the United States.

Chapter 31, “The Jewish Aspect of the ‘Movie’ Problem” was begun at the halfway point in tonight’s program. The attention is placed on the immorality, lasciviousness, criminality, etc. of the films and that it simply reflects the taste of the Jews who make them. But also, a movie with sex brings in twice to ten times more in revenue that a decent movie, it was said. An analysis of the motion picture industry revealed that 90% of parent companies were in the hands of Jews. Independent (non-Jewish) producers had to sell in the open market.

Next week we will complete Chapter 31 and go on to Chapter 32.  Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.