Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporters dubbed him "the poor man's candidate." He addressed 400 A.F.L. unionists in Bridgeport, Conn., the annual convention of the United Hebrew Trades in Atlantic City, a Liberal Party meeting in New York. In Worcester, Mass, he lit into Dewey's statement on atomic energy: "Someone should point out to the governor of New York that it was the 'dead hand' of Government which created the atomic bomb." His good temper was unfailing. Asked by New Haven reporters if he thought the ticket was going to win, he retorted with a grin: "Certainly. What...
Nevertheless he went to Jerusalem for one more inspection tour before leaving for Paris. When his aide, Swedish General Aage Lundström, suggested that he take a detour to avoid snipers, Bernadotte said: "I must take the same risks as my observers." Near Jerusalem's Hebrew University, his car was hit by an irregular's bullet. Said he: "I do not like irregulars, and I do not like to be shot...
...Catholics, it is quite daring. It is the first Catholic Bible in English to be drawn directly from the original languages rather than from the official Catholic text, the Latin Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the year 405, and the first to use the "better understanding of Hebrew and of the science of textual criticism . . . since the time of St. Jerome." But the new text is accompanied by very conservative Biblical criticism...
There is even disagreement on the Bible's very first verse, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Say the Protestants: "The fuller Biblical doctrine that God created the world out of nothing is not here developed." Say the Catholics: "Both the Hebrew word and the context show that a real creation, i.e., a making out of nothing, is meant...
...four Army chaplains-two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish-who went down with the torpedoed troopship Dorchester in 1943 after giving their life belts to G.I.s. One of them was Dr. Poling's own son. The inter-faith memorial now being built in Philadelphia will have a Hebrew tabernacle, Catholic altar and Protestant altar on a revolving base...