Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago organizations of U. S. Jews were bitterly at odds over a demand by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise and his American Jewish Congress for a referendum on whether an all-inclusive agency should be formed to defend Jews' rights. Last week 38 grave Jewish leaders, called together by Merchant Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, assembled in Pittsburgh to talk over a compromise. By day's end they had found one, which was quickly ratified by the four big organizations-American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee and B'nai B'rith. They agreed to form...
...characteristic frozen-faced, deep green Landscape with Fisherman by Doris Lee, Isaac Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced the work of a promising, 23-year-old, self-taught Syrian of New Orleans, Leon Koury, with a competent Negro figure, Compress Worker...
When great, prolific Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in 1809, he was buried in a simple grave in one of Vienna's suburban cemeteries. Two days after the burial, enthusiastic medical students bribed the gravedigger, opened the grave and made off with Composer Haydn's head. The theft was discovered eleven years later when Haydn's remains were disinterred and buried more imposingly in the neighboring town of Eisenstadt. Pressed by the police, the skull-collectors delivered up a skull which was promptly attached to the rest of Haydn's skeleton and reburied. But the skull...
When debonair, mustachioed Elisha Huson Waterman last week became kingpen of L. E. Waterman Co., the 2,000 astonished employes of this famed old fountain-pen concern could well imagine his father, Frank Dan Waterman, turning furiously in his grave. Thirteen years ago, crusty, conservative President Frank Dan kicked Elisha out of his $6,500 job in the company and banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held...
...cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between a discussion of the price of liquor and a quotation from Longfellow, "I made a resolution that I would never take a drink of liquor...