Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigrants have never stopped coming. Today, more than half of New York State's 16 million inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants. New York City alone has more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, more Jews than Israel, more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. From the tangled threads of the state's 75 national and racial groups is woven the most intricate political tapestry in U.S. history...
...special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate Ida Littman Javits Street). The Javits family lived rent-free because Immigrant Morris Javits worked as janitor for three verminous tenements. In these tenements were enough voters to whet Tammany's appetite. An arrangement was made: at election time, Morris Javits reported...
...months, the government of Canada has debated whether or not to approve Israel's request to buy 24 of the hot F-86 Sabre jet interceptors built under U.S. license by Montreal's Canadair Ltd. Last week, after a gentle nudge from the U.S. and with the approval of France (which has already sold 24 Mystere IV jet fighters to Israel), Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent approved the sale...
...West must not forget that it is not playing with a dictator of the South American variety. Nasser is a man who has the astounding and frightening ability to ride all the forces which are loose in the area: Nasser has fought colonialism, he has fought Israel, and he has fought the old regime. More than anyone else, Nasser has come to symbolize--both to the West and to his own people--adolescent nationalism itself. He may be irresponsible, but this country must and better ways of dealing with irresponsibility than by slapping it in the face...
...hope foreigners will realize, said one Israeli spokesman with an angry gesture toward the steamer lying at anchor in Haifa harbor, "that what Nasser did to the Panaghia today, he can do to British and American ships tomorrow." To the people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass...