Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stenographer at the 28th Annual National Business Show in Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, demanded demonstrations of the newest office mechanisms. Polite salesmen responded by giving a performance of the self-feeding typewriter, more like a player piano than a desk machine, with characters for any language except Hebrew and Chinese. Others displayed an attachment that recorded telephone messages which came while the boss was out, spoke them to him in dulcet tones on his return. Dictaphones, check writers, letter openers and folders indicated that the secretary of the future may need only to be decorative...
Until four months ago two publications in the U. S. could properly boast the description "national Jewish weekly." One was the Jewish Tribune, the other the American Hebrew. The Tribune, founded by the late famed Nehemiah Mosessohn. was published by his sons until last April when lack of funds forced its suspension...
Like the Tribune, the American Hebrew was partially subsidized by race-proud Jews. Its advertising revenue nearly met expenses until the current Depression. As advertising fell off, the editorial content grew sloppy. Publisher Bernard Edelhertz worried himself ill over the problem, went into his closet and hanged himself (TIME, July 27). The magazine's president & editor, Isaac Landman, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Jewish Encyclopedia, already had accepted a call to return to the rabbinate. Who, then, could take the American Hebrew's burden upon his shoulders and lead it out of its wilderness? He should...
...Emergency Fund. At present he is national chairman of China Famine Relief. When he arrived in Manhattan two years ago from Detroit to engage in banking, he was welcomed with a testimonial dinner attended by 2.000 businessmen, including onetime Jew-Baiter Henry Ford. Than David Abraham Brown, the American Hebrew could have found few backers more popular and therefore potent among Jews of all classes...
Sevillian choir boys dance prettily in the Cathedral on the festivals of Corpus Christi and the Immaculate Conception. In Chinese temples priests play on exotic little instruments. Hebrew cantors intone wailing dirges in their synagogs. But, thought perturbed members of the Maplewood Methodist Episcopal Church in Maiden, Mass., who ever heard of whistling in church...