Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Feisal's body reached Haifa, Palestine. A throng of 15,000 pious Moslems broke through a police cordon, threatened to topple over the official dais, trampled several people in an effort to touch the bier of a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed. British planes took the body to Bagdad, where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest...
Died. Bahiyyih Khanum, 85, daughter of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, in Haifa, Palestine. She was regarded by her sect as the world's holiest woman of all time. Baha'is believe in the oneness of mankind, internationalism, universal peace and love, equal opportunities and rights for both sexes. There are some 8,000 believers in the U. S. (TIME, March 10, 1930; July...
There were special arrangements from one end of Mother Nile to the other. Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert. At Wady Haifa a small special British launch took His Majesty off the air liner promptly, but other passengers waited a long while for the company's big launch. When they were brought ashore at last, there stood King Albert royally rampant...
...decade in Palestine? World Jewry has sent $220,000,000 there since 1921. Of this the U. S. gave $100,000,000. Eretz Israel ("Land of Israel'') now has a great £1,000,000 Palestine Electric Corp., founded by Engineer Pinhas Rutenberg, whose stations in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and in the Jordan valley supply all Palestine (except Jerusalem) with power. The Agricultural Experimental Station of the Keren Hayesod (colonization & immigration) teaches scientific farming and has experimental fields. The clean, white, all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") more than doubled its population (46,000). For building...
Patriarchal, seamy-faced, sad-eyed, the Expounder & Promoter died in 1921, aged 77. He had insured the hierarchic succession (though never claiming divinity) by providing a grandson to carry on. Shoghi Effendi who now lives in Haifa, Palestine. He had designated the U. S. as a Baha'i centre by laying the cornerstone of a mammoth Temple of Light near where Chicago's drainage canal flows out of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Ill. This will serve the Baha'i's in the western world?some 3,000 believers. Less pretentious but serving some 2,000,000 communicants are the three...