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...refer to Morris Rothenberg. . . ." At that name, 2.000 Jews in Providence, R. I. one day last week leaped to their feet cheering. Then they heard another name. ". . . Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. . . ." Soon thereafter the delegates to the 39th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America elected Rabbi Wise their president for the next two years; created a new post, that of chairman of the administrative committee, for Morris Rothenberg, Manhattan lawyer and outgoing Zionist president. Thus did U. S. Zionism compose its differences to present a united front against practical threats to their dream of a Jewish homeland...
While delegates from 31 states were dining & dancing at the 39th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers in Dallas, Tex. last week, the most original grocer in the U. S. was preparing to give housewives another exciting thrill in Memphis, Tenn. Name of that grocer was Clarence Saunders, a onetime miner who likes to wrestle with financial problems all night in a bathtub of hot water. Name of his latest merchandising excitement: Keedoozle Corp. Cried Keedoozler Saunders: "Within a year I'll be worth $10,000,000. I won't have that much on hand...
...last year collected some $43,000,000 from patients who believe that most diseases can be cured by manipulation of joints. Simultaneously 400 students graduated from the six "strong"* osteopathic colleges and began to earn money on their own account. When the American Osteopathic Association decided to hold its 39th convention in Cleveland last week Governor Martin Luther Davey welcomed it to the State, Mayor Harry Lyman Davis, to the city. When last week the Association hinted at holding its next convention in Manhattan, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman telegraphed: "The people of New York will be very highly honored...
They number about 40 men, mostly Italians. They band together whenever Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera gives a performance. They have no tickets and they need none. A leader passes them in, huggermugger, at the 39th Street entrance before the carriage trade arrives. Inside, they station themselves on either side of the house, as near the stage as possible. Perhaps 15 climb to the tip-top gallery. Upstairs or downstairs their job is the same-to clap...
...Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...