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...Jerusalem last week the commission now examining Palestine criminal law with a view to its revision recommended that...
...knighthood, but in another order, that of the Holy Sepulchre, were 13 other U. S. citizens last week, constituting the first national council of the Order to be formed in the U. S. Among reputed founders is Godfrey de Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade which wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth O'Brien, son-in-law of Knight...
...name was scratched on a piece of limestone Dr. Eleazar Lipa Sukenik, archeologist of the University of Jerusalem, dug out of the dry soil of the Holy Land last week. When he got it free of dirt, he deciphered it: JESHUA BAR JOHOSEPH (Jesus, Son of Joseph). The limestone proved to be one side of a boxlike ossuary, similar to many found in that district, built to contain the thighbone of the deceased...
...great benefaction was the establishment of world-wide stations which provided pure pasteurized milk at a low cost. Other great philanthropies: food, coal, lodging to Manhattan's destitute during the panic of 1893-94; the first children's tuberculosis preventortum (1909); first Pasteur Institute, first health bureau in Jerusalem; Committee for the Defense of Jews in Poland (of which he was chairman); widespread relief during...
...alarmed when a play called Kevizor was produced in their country to expose "all that was bad in Russia." Playwright Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol died in Moscow 16 years later after further distinguishing himself with the great novel Mertvuiya Dushi (Dead Souls), and after exhausting himself on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Producer Jed Harris revived Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary...