Word: borah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of a Yeshiva (seminary) in Tsarist Russia, Joseph Schneersohn tried to keep religious Judaism alive under the Bolsheviks, was arrested and sentenced to death in 1927. He was released at the behest of Senator Borah, other potent outsiders. Rabbi Schneersohn moved to Riga, then to Warsaw, where he became Chief Rabbi and founded ten Polish Yeshivoth. He was still in Warsaw when the German bombers came over last autumn. He left the building he had lived in for six weeks just before a direct hit demolished it. The Germans let him leave Poland, but the bombing left the Rabbi...
Closest thing to a defiant Senator Borah in Japan's muzzled Diet has been a slim, sharp-faced, sad-eyed little man named Takao Saito. Ever since he returned to Japan from Yale ('04), he has championed lost causes. He looks at once so meek and so dignified that his fellow Dietarians call him Lord Mouse. Last month Lord Mouse startled Japan by standing up in the Diet and roaring like a lion: When will this war end? What does all this high-sounding talk about a New Order mean? For two hours he flayed the Cabinet...
...William Edgar Borah. 5. Henrik Shipstead...
Sirs: . . . Thank you for the story on Borah of Idaho. J. W. MASON Hartford, Conn...
...Compared with such Hun-hating best-sellers as James M. Beck's The Evidence in the Case, such trench life thrillers as Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top, Brailsford's book was a commercial fizzle. But one of its readers was Woodrow Wilson (Senator Borah sent him a copy), who drew heavily on it for his 14 Points. Two years later the League's handful of supporters had grown to millions...