Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Jerusalem last week the New York Times Correspondent Joseph M. Levy cabled the text of the fatwa by which Iraq Moslem leaders last fortnight decreed a jihad (Holy War) against Britons and Jews in Palestine (TIME...
...Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, set out to find the tomb of Jesus Christ and the Cross on which He was crucified. According to Roman Catholic tradition, in Jerusalem pious Helena found the Holy Sepulchre and three crosses, one of which cured an ailing woman. To Constantinople, Helena sent what she believed was the True Cross (of pine), three Holy Nails† and the Holy Tunic which Christ wore to Calvary. Soon fragments of the Cross in great numbers were circulated among the devout...
...started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...
...ready to conquer death, Myrtle Fillmore died in 1931. Today, Charles Fillmore, 83, is president of the Unity School of Christianity, founded in Kansas City to train Unity teachers. A 1,320-acre farm 16 miles away is designed eventually to be "Unity City," a Jerusalem of Unity's anticipated Kingdom of God on earth. Unity has a predominantly feminine leadership; attracts few men to meetings; keeps no complete membership lists. It claims-although it negates many Christian teachings-that it works in the framework of the churches. It has also the framework of a publishing business-seven Unity...
Twelve-hour curfew was enforced in Jerusalem. Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The British battle-cruiser Repulse steamed into Haifa Harbor, landed marines. Eleven air squadrons stood by for bombing work. From Egypt arrived 1,600 British soldiers. With violence continuing, the British ordered the nth Hussars, an armored-car regiment, from Egypt to reinforce the 10,000 soldiers, police and constabulary...