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...Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first born, there was no need of marking Jewish doors...
...Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born and raised in Iowa, taken to Washington by a patron (Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Leslie Mortier Shaw), experienced in the work of the Department by two years there (1906-08) as a junior attorney, further trained through holding offices as mayor, judge and state senator in South Dakota...
Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
...Thomas was born in Marion, Ohio, and graduated from Princeton in 1905. He then took up social work, and became intimately familiar with the living and working conditions of the laborers. During the World War he took a firm stand for Peace as an active member of the American Union against Militarism. Since then he has run a New York Socialist paper, and been prominent in the organization of the party, and the conducting of strikes against wage cuts and injunctions. He has done a great deal to justify the Socialist party in the opinion of the world...
...Born. A daughter, to Mr. & Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller (Flora Whitney) of Roslyn, L. I. The child is granddaughter of Harry Payne Whitney, financier & sportsman, and Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, heiress-sculptress...