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...proclaimed a day of prayer for "peace, harmony and fraternity" among all Rumanian faiths. Handsomely he wrote Dr. Jacob Isaac Niemirower, Chief Rabbi of 1,000,000 Rumanian Jews, that "the Jewish religion is recognized to enable it to make better human beings and more faithful citizens of its followers." Chief Rabbi Niemirower, his yarmulke (skullcap) bobbing with excitement, ordered synagog gatherings throughout Rumania on the day of prayer, to pledge Jewry's loyalty and devotion...
Another impediment is the law of property in corpses. They belong to the next of kin or friendship. When Dr. Green applied to San Francisco's Health Commissioner Jacob Casson Geiger and Coroner Thomas Byers Woods Leland for cooperation, they reminded him that peeling a cornea from a body was precisely like performing an autopsy: it requires written permission of the corpse's owners...
Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...
...Journalists George and Gilbert Seldes, onetime Pennsylvania Congressman Benjamin Colder, Dean Jacob Goodale Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture (New Brunswick, N. J.), Judge Jacob Panken of Manhattan, Judge Theodore Rosen of Philadelphia, Judge Joseph B. Perskie of New Jersey's supreme court- all were once Jewish farm boys...
...exchange for Southwell, Jacob P. Den Hartog, associate professor of Applied Mechanics will lecture at Oxford during that half-year. At the same time leave of absence has been given to Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, from March 1 to June 1, 1938 to go to the Peiping Medical College, while Mason Hammond, assistant professor of History and of Greek and Latin will study at the American Academy in Rome...