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| Monta Bell | |
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| Born | February 5, 1891 Washington DC  United States |
| Died | April 4, 1958 Hollywood |
| Spouse(s) | Betty Lawford |
Aaron Leland Sapiro (1884 - 1959) was a Jewish American cooperative activist and lawyer and major leader of the farmers' movement during the 1920s. One of the many issues he spoke on was co-operative grain marketing and was particularly active in California and Saskatoon in Saskatchewan where he addressed several meetings between 1923 and 1924..[1]
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Sapiro was born in Oakland, California in 1884. The son of Jewish immigrants his childhood was lived in relative poverty but was able to obtain a law degree and gain a position on the California markets board staff, where he became acquainted with the concepts of agricultural co-operation for the first time. He was active in organizing in the United States before being posted by the Farmers’ Union leadership to promote the Pool in western Canada most notably Saskatchewan. He also devised a plan for the "commodity method" of cooperative marketing, which became widely known as the "California Plan" or "Sapiro Plan. [2]. This plan involved developing farmer cooperatives in an effort to eliminate middlemen and wholesalers and, in the process, to dramatically increase farm profits particularly in fruit sellers in California. By 1925, the Plan had a membership of some 890,000 farmers nationwide and had the endorsement of the National Council of Farmer's Cooperative Marketing Association. According to The New York Times, Sapiro was "the leader of one of the greatest agricultural movements of modern times." [3]
Sapiro spent much time in organizing cooperatives in California, and he publicized the need for a uniform Cooperative Marketing Act and received wisespread recognition for enabling most of the states of American to adopt the Act and the endorsement of the National Council of Farmer's Cooperative Marketing Association.[4]
He worked extensively, whilat not on his promotional travels in between Chicago and San Francisco as a lawyer where in April 1924 he became outraged with antisemitic remarks made by Henry Ford in his book The International Jew. News reports at the time quoted him as being shocked by the content chiefly the section "Jewish Exploitation of the American Farmer's Organizations: Monopoly Traps Operate Under the Guise of Marketing Associations," which attacked the band of Jewish-bankers, lawyers, , advertising agencies, fruit farmers, market buyers, and office professionals which contributed to the domination of Jewish people in the American cooperative marketing system . [5]Many prominent Jewish professionals were cited including Bernard Baruch, Albert Lasker;Eugene Meyer, Otto Kahn and Julius Rosenwald directed at the influence of Sapiro.
December 1927 he won a libel lawsuit brought against Henry Ford in response to apparent antisemitic remarks in his book The International Jew.
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| Otto Brandenburg | |
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| Born | September 4, 1934 Denmark |
| Died | March 1, 2007 |
| Years active | 1940s- 2000 |
Otto Brandenburg ( September 4, 1934 - March 1, 2007) was a Danish musician and actor.
He won several Bodil Awards in the late 1970s and early 1980s for his performances in films.
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- Styrmand Karlsen (1958)
- Sømand i knibe (1960)
- Mine tossede drenge (1961)
- Prinsesse for en dag (1962)
- Don Olsen kommer til byen (1964)
- Den gale dansker (1969)
- Guld til præriens skrappe drenge (1971)
- Bennys badekar (1971)
- Tandlæge på sengekanten (1971)
- Revolutionen i vandkanten (1971)
- Med kærlig hilsen (1971)
- Mor, jeg har patienter (1972)
- Man sku' være noget ved musikken (1972)
- Lenin, din gavtyv (1972)
- Mig og Mafiaen (1973)
- I tyrens tegn (1974)
- Prins Piwi (1974)
- Bejleren - en jysk røverhistorie (1975)
- Familien Gyldenkål (1975)
- Piger i trøjen (1975)
- Blind makker (1976)
- Spøgelsestoget (1976)
- Sømænd på sengekanten (1976)
- Hopla på sengekanten (1976)
- Strømer (1976)
- Julefrokosten (1976)
- Hærværk (1977)
- Familien Gyldenkål vinder valget (1977)
- Pas på ryggen, professor (1977)
- Hør, var der ikke en som lo? (1978)
- Mig og Charly (1978)
- Trællene (1978)
- Trællenes oprør (1979)
- Krigernes børn (1979)
- Næste stop - Paradis (1980)
- Langturschauffør (1981)
- Har du set Alice? (1981)
- Gummi Tarzan (1981)
- Thorvald og Linda (1982)
- Kidnapning (1982)
- Tre engle og fem løver (1982)
- Ballerup Boulevard (1986)
- Skyggen af Emma (1988)
- Kærlighed uden stop (1989)
- Sort høst (1993)
- Riget I (1994)
- Riget II (1997)
- Forbudt for børn (1998)
- Dykkerne (2000)
- Prop og Berta (2000)
- Max (2000)
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Category:Danish musicians Category:Danish actors Category:Danish film actors
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