Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gilbert E. Mottla '32 of Cambridge and Reginald H. Zalles of Boston, former instructor in philosophy at Harvard, were chosen as vice chairmen. John C. Palmer A.M. '42 of Somerville, Lawrence M. Jaffa 3 Div. of Pembroke, and Miss Elizabeth Russo, Radcliffe '50, of Cambridge were named to the State Executive Committee...
...City, Jewish and Arab soldiers chatted amiably back & forth across narrow strips of no man's land. One Arab Legion captain, lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
...Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that he had been skipped in Israel's recent census...
...said his subsequent votes against Harvard participation in the DP project had a "50-50" motivation. First, he believed that the HYRC Planning Committee opposed the plan. Second, he believed that "older people in the NSA"--such as Lawrence Jaffa 2Dv and Charles Mahoney of Boston University--wanted to take another project, the Tri-Nations Tour, out of the hands of the Smith College delegation. Fisher said these people felt the Smith group was dominated by communist sympathizers...
...nine-member board of teachers and officials from New England schools and colleges has agreed to advise the New England region of the National Students Association, Alice Gilbert '49, chairman of the region, announced this week. Lawrence F. Jaffa 3Dv is one of the members...