Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW,* by William S. Holdsworth, K.C., D.C.L., Professor in English Law at Oxford, is the first continuous history of English Law ever written. Said one Abraham Benedict, writing for The New York Times: "There are still lawyers in this country who think it no less important to know the history of the great heritage that is ours than to be acquainted with the latest decisions and to such these volumes will be a source of interest, pleasure and profit, and no student of political or economic conditions can afford to overlook this source of information...
Georgia pastors now believe that the institution of consecrated land will be adopted in every state. Whether miraculous or not, the institution of the Lord's acre stabilizes church finances and is in accord with Jewish traditions dating from Abraham and the Roman Catholic practice in feudal days...
...railroad clerk, a clerk in the Board of Education, and an insurance actuary, he organized the U. S. Trust Co. in 1853. From that date to 1902, he served as its President, except for a two-year period during the Civil War, when he was called by Abraham Lincoln to act as Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. Since 1902, Mr. Stewart has acted as Chairman of the Board of the bank which, a half-century before, he had organized...
Among other greetings, this was read: "The Independent Order of B'rith Abraham, the largest Jewish fraternity in the world, sends fraternal greetings and best wishes...
...Secretary of the St. Petersburg, Fla., Chamber of Commerce has his way, that city will shelter no son of Abraham, or of Isaac, or of Jacob. He, James Coad, desires to maintain the neighborly spirit which he reckons to be one of the chief assets of the locality. Said...