Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee has asked these men, "What shall we be allowed to read, what plays to see, what to believe, and where to hold meetings?" The problem will be discussed by Professor Chafee, Dr. Abraham Myerson, of Tufts Medical School, E. A. Weeks, Jr., of the Atlantic Monthly, and John S. Codman, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. Thomas J. McGrath, Mayor of Quincy, was to have spoken, but found today that he would be unable to be present...
When the patriarch Abraham was 99 years old the Lord told him that his wife, Sarah, would be the mother of nations and of kings of people. Hearing this, the patriarch fell upon his face, roared in laughter shouting: "Shall a child be born to him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear...
Last week the National Sunday School Union of Great Britain printed a Bible which gave what the Lord told Abraham but carefully omitted the aged man's merriment and doubt. Both old and New Testament had been carefully revised and expurgated of all things that might bring evil thoughts to the young...
...left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including his brother, from voting for the merger), and F. & R. Lazarus...
Died. Col. Abraham Gilbert Mills, 85, of Manhattan, Civil War veteran, Otis Elevator Co. official, onetime (1882-85) National Baseball League president; at his summer home, Terrace Gardens, Mass...