Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past fortnight were some 600 black Jews in Harlem. Of these a few are converts but most are Negroes of Semitic origin from Africa-chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's only black Jewish synagog is run by a bearded Negro named Moshe Ben Moshe Ben Yehuda, who was born in Lagos, West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that black Jews...
Science itself might almost have predicted the names of those to whom all this appealed. Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Edgar Lee Masters, Burton Rascoe, John Cowper Powys, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Leon Wilson and Tiffany Thayer were present one night at a dinner given in Fort's honor by Publisher J. David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx...
...weeks after the race. The following year, when his mount, Lord Woolavington's big Captain Cuttle, showed up lame just before the starting parade and the odds jumped to 10-to-1, Steve Donoghue rode to his smoothest Derby victory. When he won again the next year with Ben Irish's 100-to-15 shot Papyrus, he and his mount were sent to the U. S. to race against that year's Kentucky Derby winner, Zev, with famed Earl Sande up. Donoghue and Papyrus lost the race and Mr. Irish lost the $100,000 purse...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news Back to Manhattan, after working four months in Hollywood, went Author Ben Hecht to put his play To Quito and Back in rehearsal. Said Author Hecht: "When...
...Ben B. Johnson, Brooklyn, New York--Choate...