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Zionism gave the long distance telephone operators at Chatham, Mass., an unusual amount of switchboard plugging last week. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court had just established himself in his summer home there, on the eve of the Zionist Organization of America's convention in Cleveland. The delegates at Cleveland were pondering and discussing his offer to return to active Zionism with his cohorts if the current regime headed by Louis Lipsky were ousted (TIME, July...
This change of front-from ultimatum to suggestion-caused the lengthy telephonings to Chatham. If holding the telephone receiver for long periods discomforted Justice Brandeis, he probably did not mind. For out of the calls resulted a compromise largely in his own terms and a regime which will guide U. S. Zionism until the next convention. Henceforth, provided no organization quarrels intervene, Zionist affairs in the U. S. will be controlled by 18 chiefs- twelve of them Brandeisites, six of them Lipskyites. Assisting them will be an executive committee of 40 (divided equally between the Brandeis and Lipsky factions...
...lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...
Rainbow "R." First of the new "R" class of submarines now being built to replace 36 British subs which will become obsolete in 1932, is the Rainbow of 1,475 tons. With a real rainbow shimmering in the British sky last week, the dingy grey Rainbow was launched at Chatham. "Blue Water." Offers by the U. S. Battle Monuments Commission to erect beside the Thames a world War memorial to the U. S. Navy were favorably debated by the London County Council last week, but sharply criticized by the Admiralty's so called "Blue Water School...
...They took the form of cures. The first miracle was that Sister Marie-Maxima of a religious House of St. Hyacinth in Quebec recovered "perfectly and instantaneously" on Dec. 30, 1927, from a prolonged attack of tubercular peritonitis. Second miracle was that Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada) had on July 9, 1926, a cure, also perfecta et instantanea, of prolonged tubercular peritonitis...