Word: chaim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson, the great French philosopher, member of the French Academy and Commander in the Legion of Honor; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian, 'supreme in the field of belles-lettres...
Israel Zangwill, Englishman of letters: "The Jewish Tribune printed a list of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world, as chosen by vote of its readers. Albert Einstein, German physicist, was considered relatively the most outstanding. Chaim Weizmann, mann, English chemist, perfector of TNT, head of the Zionist movement, was second. I was third...
Carlsbad (in Czecho-Slovakia). The World Zionist Conference (the 13th) closed. Vigorous back-to-Palestine agitation was voted. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, after an 8 p. m.5 a. m. session, ousted the present director of activities and seated a new Executive Committee. Several New York; Zionists are now members of the Actions Committee. Having announced the collection of $4,300,000, of which $2,750,000 came from the U. S., the delegates departed from Carlsbad's wooded hills and scattered about the globe...
...Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization: "At a dinner in New York, I suggested that Jerusalem might become the seat of the League of Nations...