Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promote a $2,000,000 endowment fund drive for his school. He talked with prominent Cincinnatians, including his halfbrother, Charles Phelps Taft,* editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Next day, Brother Charles made a gift of $5,000, not to Brother Horace's school, but to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. The day after that, Taft School received a gift of $50,000, not from a gentile, but from Mortimer Leo Schiff, Jewish philanthropist, Manhattan banker, whose son John was a graduate of Taft School & Yale. Jews and gentiles were proud of each other...
...gift of Charles Phelps Taft was the largest yet made by a gentile to the Hebrew Union College, which is raising a $5,000,000 endowment fund. Mr. Schiff also gave $50,000 to the Hebrew Union College, as did Henry Morgenthau, Samuel Untermyer, William (cinema) Fox, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg,† Ludwig Vogelstein; Daniel, Murry, Solomon R. Guggenheim. The estate of the late Louis Heineman contributed $150,000 and Adolph (cinema) Zukor gave...
...will sponsor a reception and tea at the Commander Hotel on Garden Street, at which Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City and Professor Kirsopp Lake will be the speakers. Rabbi Wise will discuss the general Zionistic situation, and Professor Lake will speak on some aspects of the Hebrew University in Palestine...
Gasquet Bible. St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420) translated the Old Testament not from the Greek Septuagint but from the Hebrew original; the New Testament he took from its original Greek. In Bethlehem, where he had journeyed from Rome, he lived like a hermit while he worked. His translation gradually became recognized by the early Church with a sanction more universal than that bestowed upon any of the other Latin scriptures, which were, for the most part, localized and incomplete...
Birthday for Adolph S. Ochs (born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...