Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lewis W. Lincoln, second cousin of the onetime President Abraham Lincoln; in Los Angeles, following an abdominal operation...
...causes. Jews & Jewesses saluted included: Sculptors Jo Davidson, Jacob Epstein, Max Kalisch; Aviation Promoters Daniel Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim, Charles A. Levine; Benchers & Barristers Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Garfield Hays Carolyn Fromberg Loeb, Joseph N. Proskauer, Samuel Untermyer; Civic Benefactors Albert M. Greenfield (Philadelphia), Albert S. Lavenson (Oakland, Calif.), Abraham C. Ratshesky (Boston), Mortimer L. Schiff (New York), Moses Schoenberg (St. Louis); Civic Workers Edward A. Filene (Boston), Adolph Lewisohn (New York); Educators Cyrus Adler, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter; Education Benefactors George S. Cohen*, Simon Guggenheim, Louis B. Kuppenheimer, Charles A. Wimpfheimer; Internationalists Leo S. Rowe, Simon Straus, Felix...
...second largest Negro city in the world (population 206,000) stretches its easygoing length and breadth over several square miles of southern Chicago. Some 41,000 of the inhabitants go to the polls, where it can be taken for granted they will vote for Abraham Lincoln's party (Republican...
...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
...righteous minds. It violated ancient Jewish, Semitic, Oriental traditions. Women should hide themselves in the House of God.* Mr. Katz was vexed. Many of the congregation left. In Cleveland where the P'selvah Katz clan numbers almost a thousand, there is a saying: "to fight like a Katz." Abraham A. Katz remained with Anshe Emeth Congregation to fight Rabbi Goldman. He has not yet conquered...