Word: israel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Menachem Ussishkin, mighty namesake of an evil King of Israel, reached the U. S. last week from Palestine. The purpose of his visit is to bolster the rage of U. S. Jews against Great Britain's recent opposition to further Jewish colonization of Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.), and to raise money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call...
...Tactlessness always has been one of the outstanding defects of the children of Israel. British Jews do not err in this respect nearly as much as their kinsmen of the Continent. Nevertheless they would do well to remember that the fact of leadership of the Bolshevist campaign against civilization and religion being almost entirely in the hands of men of their blood has done inevitable and incalculable harm to the reputation of the Hebrew race in every country of its adoption...
English 35a is a course on the Old Testament of the Bible and consists of a rational and unbiased exposition of its meaning and literary merit, in itself a cause deserving of laurels. But the scribes of Israel might well be at a loss for attention if it were not for the genius and personality of their interpreter. Yesterday morning Professor Lake, lecturing before a class of about two hundred, read, as is his custom, two well known fables from the Old Testament, and read them with such a depth of feeling and expression that during the pause of fully...
...Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched a cricket ball at him, convinced...
...Judge Sabath signed an order giving to each legal possession of the child she held. Yet he was still uncertain in his own mind as to which baby was which. Since there were two children, the famed maternity case of Harlot v. Harlot as decided by Judge Solomon of Israel in B. C. 1014 afforded him no precedent. He arose to the occasion, however, as follows...