Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...
...hysterical ravings over Charles Lindbergh and be informed of one kindly deed, one generous donation, one appreciative gesture, any tribute of love and acknowledgments of his mother's part-the major part, of this overrated, childishly magnified onetime flight across the Atlantic? Perhaps you too will dare to say the Eagle has pig's feet. ALVA REMING...
Abraham Goldberg of the Bronx, N. Y., added that the blame was not only Yevseksia's since if the Soviet Government did not approve of the persecution nobody would dare persecute. A resolution of ''protest and condemnation" was sent to President Hoover and Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations committee...
...Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell...