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Contributors of $10,000: John North Willys, Harry Frank Guggenheim, Jeremiah Milbank, Mantis James Van Sweringen, Orris Paxton Van Sweringen, John Davison Rockefeller Sr., John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Howard M. Hanna, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Henry H. Timken, William Robert Timken, Harrison Williams, Herbert Nathan Straus, William Nelson Cromwell, George A. Martin, Joseph Randolph Nutt...
...front porch of the church is a thin John the Disciple carved on the median jamb of the red double doors. St. John is the greeter. For "ushers" he has on one side of the porch Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos, Micah; on the other side followers of Christ SS. Simeon, Stephen, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy. Carved above them on the arch of the porch are two rows of angels framing a row of greatest scientists (Hippocrates to Albert Einstein, only living person yet figured in the whole church), a row of philosophers (Pythagoras to Ralph Waldo Emerson, only American figured...
...Established 1905 "to improve the physical, mental and moral conditions of humanity and generally to advance charitable and benevolent objects," by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, in memory of her parents, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Lake Milbank. Mrs. Anderson's cousin, Albert Goodsell Milbank, Manhattan lawyer, is Fund president. Another cousin and charitarian is Jeremiah Milbank, Manhattan banker...
...went down on Jerusalem after the second day of August, and Tisha b'Ab, the Ninth of Ab (Great Fast Day), began,* Jews pious and Jews pugnacious walked warily toward the Wailing Wall. The Wall is a remnant of The Temple. Jews have wept, have recited the Lamentations of Jeremiah there for most of 1,800 years...
Result: Tisha b'Ab passed peacefully if uncomfortably. A reader intoned Jeremiah's lamentations by the light of a tiny flickering oil lamp. Jews squatted on the bare stones, straining to hear, but did not tarry long for the crowd was great and many were waiting to worship. The British constabulary called it the quietest as well as one of the biggest Tisha b'Abs on record...