Word: israels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), president of Amalgamated Broadcasting System, organized last spring (after many postponements it began broadcasting in September), resigned his post. Announced reason: the discovery that he was a showman, not a businessman. Ota Gygi (Hun garian-born, onetime court violinist to Alfonso XIII) and Henry Goldman, businessman, who ran the company all summer while Mr. Wynn was in Hollywood, remain in charge. Ed Wynn became once more Texaco's broadcasting Fire Chief...
January 14 Rabbi Harry Levi, Temple Israel, Boston...
Lessing. At Marienbad, near the German border, lived bearded little Professor Theodor Lessing, an exile from Germany. A pacifist and a Jew, Professor Lessing had been converted to Christianity, but returned to Israel after students, enraged by his radical opinions, forced his resignation from Hanover Technical College and the Hitler Government confiscated his property. To Marienbad he fled, taking with him as his chief treasure the walking stick of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Last week while the 18th World Zionist Congress squab- bled hoarsely in Prague, someone raised a clumsy fire ladder to the third floor window of Professor...
...travelers, whose popularity steadily increases among U. S. Catholics. To dozens of churches motor cars, taxicabs and trucks proceeded last week for sprinkling and blessing. Into the churches passed drivers to invoke burly St. Christopher's help with prayer: "O God, who didst provide for the children of Israel to pass dry of foot through the midst of the waters, and didst open for the three Magi a road to Thee by means of a Star, grant unto us, we beseech Thee, a journey prosperous and free from harm; that accompanied by Thy Holy Angel, we may arrive safely...
...program which will be played on the new $50,000 Isham organ follows: Prelude (Symphony 1)--Vierne (Mr. Phelps): On Mighty Pens (Creation)--Haydn (Miss Morton), Chorale in A "Minor--Franck (Mr. Phelps); Hear Ye Israel (Elijah)--Mendelssohn (Miss Morton) Choral Improvisation--Karg-Elect, and Sertie--Reports (Mr. Phelps...