Word: gedaliah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the soles of his high-laced shoes to the top of his balding pate, Nathan Gedaliah Richman is the kind of executive that Richman workers think is tops. They like the way he sheds the coat of his $22.50 suit on hot days and goes into the cafeteria (lunch 18? to 22?) with his gold watch chain gleaming across his comfortable paunch. They like their 36-hour, five-day week, which they have had for six years. They like the immemorial company custom by which an officer of the firm stands at the front door of the plant...
Meantime further finds were being made at Lachish which the expedition members, with Sir Charles off attending to other matters, did not feel like withholding. One was a seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
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