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...Fellow Zionists call him "The Iron Will." But his first name, Menachem, means "the comforter." There is an interesting reverse parallelism between Menachem Ussishkin, one of those under whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down to conquer the region. Menahem paid Pul $1,940,000 to go away peacefully. Menahem...
...remaining impediment to the union, more ethical than actual, is the merger negotiations which the Reformed Church in the U. S. has been conducting with the Evangelical Synod of North America. Those negotiations might be dropped, as similar Reformed dealings with the United Brethren in Christ have been dropped, or, what seemed more likely last week, the United Brethren and the Evangelicals might be assimilated into the Presbyterian-Reformed association...
...next-to-worst thing for the Administration still impended?the thing Speaker Longworth had feared and predicted: an upbuilding of Democratic strength to the point?204 seats?where the 15 insurgent Republicans of the House would possess a balance-of-power like that of their insurgent brethren in the Senate...
...clarity of mind as the henchman of the great god Accuracy was in no small degree shaken last evening by the news that in my former haunts in Formosa 86 head-hunters bit the dust at the hands of the Japanese forces, and that no end of my former brethren ended their term of service on this earth...
...politics, two women and the stock-market have been among the vital interests of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. All of his brethren deplored his gambling in stocks, and at the Dallas convention of his church last spring, he tearfully promised to gamble no more, was forgiven (TIME, May 26 et seq.). But four of his brethren in the South still deplored his conduct in general, which they felt unfitted him for the service of God. While he was honeymooning in Brazil with the second of the two women who have been dear...