Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned that forgiveness of Lucia came slowly, vanished many times in the course of a marriage, did not understand his own love for her until after the Asturian revolt had been defeated, Moorish troops had entered the country and he and Lucia had escaped across the mountains toward their homeland...
...their president for the next two years; created a new post, that of chairman of the administrative committee, for Morris Rothenberg, Manhattan lawyer and outgoing Zionist president. Thus did U. S. Zionism compose its differences to present a united front against practical threats to their dream of a Jewish homeland...
...Providence the Zionists adopted a resolution demanding arms for Palestine Jews, another condemning Jewish Communists for inciting disorder in the homeland. Then they adjourned, many of them still marveling that they had managed to elect Rabbi Wise their leader. That head of Manhattan's Free Synagog has a large collection of enemies and critics, most of them Jews who dislike the American Jewish Congress, of which he is president. Dedicated to the principle of holding periodic World Jewish Congresses, the U. S. group elected delegates last month who in Geneva next month will probably elect Rabbi Wise their world...
Last fortnight another of the promises sprayed about by British diplomats in 1917 came home to roost when Britain's Wartime Minister David Lloyd George reminded the House of Commons: "The Balfour Declaration [for a British-backed Jewish homeland in Palestine] was made at one of the darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that...
...proposal. It came from none other than Jefferson Davis Dickson Jr. of Jackson, Miss, and Paris, France, whose career as a sports promoter long since caused him to be called the "Tex Rickard of Europe." Last week Promoter Dickson arrived in Manhattan on his annual visit to his homeland, promptly proved that his nickname scarcely did his talents justice. As well as talking Promoter Jacobs, long Rickard's right-hand man, into an admiring daze. Promoter Dickson explained to reporters a few more of his immediate projects: a European tour for one-time Champion Max Baer; a European heavyweight...