Word: chaim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Left to themselves in comparative peace, by the Vienna rabble, the 14th Zionist Congressmen (TIME, Aug. 24th, 31) last week made war with one another. The Congress had practically decided to elect Nahum Sokolov, executive committee head, President of the World Zionists. The outgoing President, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, was apparently willing to take a vacation...
...Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talk-the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts...
...from Government House. The central tribune contained many notables. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt, was there. He had been specially invited, as it was he who led the "ninth" or last crusade that delivered the Holy Land from its centuries-old Turkish domination. Others were: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization; Grand Rabbis Dr. Hertz of Britain, Dr. Levy of France, Dr. Abraham Kuk, head of the Ashkenazic sect, Dr. Jacob Mead, head of the Sephardic sect. Behind, were professors of the University; to one side, were the consular representatives of foreign countries...
...Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, debarked in Manhattan to spend three weeks in raising more money for the Zionist movement, the back-to-Palestine movement of the Jews...
...corporation, inspired by Chaim Weizmann, world leader, was decreed by resolution at a meeting called in Manhattan by Louis Marshall, Cyrus Adler, Horace Stern, Herbert Lehman. The meeting called upon American Jews to invest between 2 and 5 million dollars. Securities will probably be offered...