Word: communal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rabbis attempted to make no "significant" statements this Yom Kippur. Ceremonies were more important than sermons. Jews had no great communal calamity to lament. Each turned inward in penitence, for a 24-hour examination of his conscience...
...reasons for the failure of the Union plan: those eating there feel no necessity to bind themselves to certain tables, since under present conditions they are at liberty to sit where and with whom they choose and consequently by this time of the year, the same groups have formed communal habits which have proved satisfactory; secondly, there is a decided hesitancy about spontaneously offering to become a part of a system as unfamiliar as the University dining hall is to the present undergraduate...
Atlanta. For ten months newspapers and magazines have carried advertisements stating the advantages of Atlanta, Ga., as a trade centre, "Gateway to the South." The campaign cost $250,000, and it has succeeded. In ten months, 136 new concerns went to Atlanta, and 4,630 persons. The communal payroll increased by $7,000,000 yearly. Pleased, Atlanta businessmen began last week to collect $1,000,000 to continue this national advertising of their city for another three years...
...reputation of amassing wealth by other means than tilling the soil. Under the Tsars Jews were practically debarred from landholding and forced into the occupations of middlemen and money lenders. Under the Soviets, land has been placed freely at the disposal of Jews, while at the same time communal distribution of pro duce has ruined them as middle men. Result: Russian Jews are leaving the cities in large numbers, migrating to take up farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been extended numerous concessions by the State...
...half of the Chinese Republic is now controlled by our Communal armies which are supreme in the provinces of Kwantung, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Hunan, Szechwan, Hupeh and Kansu, with part control of Honan and Shensi provinces...