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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isaac Mayer Wise called the first council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Cincinnati. Its prime purpose was to found Hebrew Union College. Two years later, with a faculty of two, and 16 students, the college started. The library consisted of a few Bibles. The class rooms were the vestry rooms of B'nai Israel and B'nai Yeshuruh in Cincinnati. Today the college has four large Tudor buildings, has graduated 289 Rabbis. The library now has 70,000 volumes and the largest collection of Spinoziana in the world. The librarian is Adolph...
...found I had a situation dominated by thought instead of emotion," he said. "The music would have nothing to say. . . . There was no way I could think my way back into the unsettled emotions...
...statement: "I believe those States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico can grow plant rubber with profit to the farmer, in case of war prices. But it might be possible in the future to grow rubber and compete with the tropics. I have found over 1,200 plants to produce rubber. About 40 of them will be cultivated on a large scale...
President Harold F. Pitcairn of Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., has found such promise in Juan de la Cierva's Autogiro that last week he organized Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America to develop the autogiro in this country...
...SILVER VIRGIN-Ida A. R. Wylie -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In the little Spanish church of the Silver Virgin, where years ago he had found Justine, Gale sought sanctuary from his well-bred kindly friends. But friends being what they are, one of them broke sanctuary; and not knowing why Gale had left Justine, begged him to be reconciled to her. Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew...