Word: commonwealth
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Jacobs' modernism might be Chillul Hashem (desecration of God's name) to the United Synagogue, but his views were just right for New West End, which last January asked him to return as its rabbi. Dr. Israel Brodie, the ailing Orthodox chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth, refused to approve the appointment. Eventually the United Synagogue Council, composed exclusively of laymen, voted to expel the New West End board of lay managers...
From the welter of facts, with the passion of a born antiquarian and the insights of a self-made sociologist, Powell has reconstructed the intense pulling and hauling of an early American community that was, "in a real sense, a little commonwealth," able to create "as much of an ideal state as its leaders could conceive and find agreement on." Such fine-grained history is certainly more for the scholar than for most general readers. Yet Powell's style is clear, if sometimes too sugary, and the people and events can be absorbing...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said last night Harvard neither pays taxes nor makes any payments in lieu of taxes on the property since the land's tax exempt status is guaranteed by the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Kevin Lyonette, a Commonwealth Fellow currently studying at the University, will discuss "Private Enterprising in Government" at 7:30 p.m. tonight, before the Latin American Association at 77 Dunster...
...Southern Rhodesia achieved "responsible self-government" more than 40 years ago as a territorial member of the British Commonwealth. But since then, with the emergence of black-ruled independent states throughout Africa, the definition of responsibility has changed. Under Southern Rhodesia's constitution, only 60,000 of the na tion's 3,600,000 blacks qualify to vote, and the government remains under the control of a white minority numbering...