Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally the Jew's religion is simplified by being founded on the Old Testament to the exclusion of the New. The Jew bargains and haggles, remembering that the God of the Old Testament set the example of higgling with Abraham. The commercial efficiency of the European is lowered by the fact that his New Testament religion idealizes Christ, Who countenanced the very practical art of higgling so little that He drove the money-changers out of the Temple...
...Heard Representative Upshaw eulogize Abraham Lincoln and Prohibition; laughed as he brandished a whiskey bottle (empty) and a Bible. Said he: "Let the President and the Vice President, every member of the Cabinet, and the popular Speaker of the House, all openly and unitedly announce that they will not attend any function-social, fraternal, commercial, or diplomatic- where intoxicants are served. This would give a moral thrill that would electrify the world...
...from the immense and growing attendance at American universities and colleges, that nowhere on earth are educational prospects so bright as they are in this country. Have we not 780 colleges, with 265,564 students in them? What more could he asked But it appears not only that Dr. Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General Education Board, asks a good deal more but that, in his view, Americans do not value education, and that conditions favorable to scholarship do not prevail in this country. That is to say, we have the schools, but they do not realize their potentialities...
...Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb had faith in U. S. railroads when they began their Manhattan partnership in 1867. But their vision might have remained national, had not Jacob Henry Schiff come over from Germany and married Mr. Loeb's daughter, Teresa. The partners made a partner of the son-in-law (1875), and at the same time took into the firm another young man of financial perspicacity?Abraham Wolff. It was not long before Jacob Schiff dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers...
...ride and explains that Arthur must love his fellowmen; that the future of humanity is divinity. . . . The tale is not unreadable. It does nothing if not rush. Over the last 75 years it puts on such a burst of speed that the landscape blurs entirely save for landmarks like Abraham Lincoln, Pittsburgh factories, modern "go-getters." But the book itself is more interesting than its contents. It is the third in a series called "The American Panorama." The first two, far better books, folklore rather than fantasy, were Run, Sheep, Run and Gypsy Down the Lane. Author Williamson, onetime hobo...