Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been left pregnant by John Brewer. The child's outraged mother took her daughter to Denver General Hospital, loudly pleaded for an abortion. That action raised questions of law, medical ethics and social customs which, by last week, had roused comment throughout the nation. Deputy Manager Bertram Barr Jaffa of Denver General Hospital forbade the abortion, a simple procedure in the early stage of the child's pregnancy, until the district attorney would guarantee that the abortionist would not be prosecuted for an operation which in Colorado is a crime. This the district attorney refused to guarantee, pointing...
...Jewish National Council and the Palestine Arab Executive, respectively. Neither the Council nor the Executive have any legal status but both have much prestige. Early last week President Musa Kazem Pasha el Husseini of the Arab Executive warned Sir Arthur Wauchope that Arab young bloods intended to demonstrate at Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, "against excessive Jewish immigration...
...days later the Arab mob whirled through Jaffa under the green flag of Allah...
...using only their truncheons, tried to club into submission 8,000 gibbering, shrieking Arabs who attacked with knives and brickbats, dragged policemen from their horses which stampeded whinnying and brought a puckered frown to the brow of District Commissioner Crosbie who watched from a window overlooking the melee in Jaffa's main square...