Word: abba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is the day that the Lord hath made!" cried a rabbi in the U.N. delegates' lounge after the vote. "Let us be glad and rejoice therein!" One happy Zionist, Marcus Wulkin, rapturously bussed Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chief U.S. representative on the Jewish Agency for Palestine (see cut). But Arab representatives stalked out of the Assembly chamber, saying they would fight the plan. U.S. Delegate Herschel Johnson, who had steered the partition plan to parliamentary victory, was wary of premature rejoicing. "This thing is just beginning," he said wearily...
...last week filled the committee room at Lake Success: "In these tragic years, when the whole household of Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...
...election of a new president to succeed aged, ailing Chaim Weizman, distrusted as pro-British in spite of a lifetime given to Zionism. Two candidates were angling for his job. One was dynamic David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive. His opponent was a Cleveland rabbi, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Sad-eyed, smooth-talking Dr. Silver, who led some U.S. Jews in opposition to the British loan, opposes Ben-Gurion on the ground that the Agency's offer on partition was a tactical blunder which gave ground too readily to the British...
When John L. Severance died six years ago, nobody knew for sure how many millions he had spent on culture for Cleveland. Because he had no direct heirs, his baronial 180-acre estate went to a second cousin, Severance A. Milliken, husband of Broadway Actress Marta Abba (Tovarich). The contents of the mansion, one of the finest private art collections in the Middle West, he had willed to the Cleveland Art Museum...
...Abba C. Ames Memorial Scholarship to Richard A. Howard 1G, of Warren, Ohio...