Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Richard Henry Catling, 58, Manhattan banker, son of famed Gatling-gunman Richard Jordan Catling; to Ann M. Jones, of Baltimore, in Hagerstown, Md. Banker Catling recently divorced Winifred Waters Catling on the ground of desertion. She had gone to Jerusalem, Palestine, to practice Christian Science...
There was for instance that phrase about being unable any longer to view this earth as "a training camp preparatory for life in the new Jerusalem." For six years he had been trying it out on the girls in his sociology classes at Smith College. When they had heard it once or twice, they never forgot...
...married Frieda Schiff, daughter of Jacob H. Schiff, in 1895, has been Kuhn-Loeb partner since 1896, became a U. S. citizen in 1900. He has been conspicuously identified with Jewish charities and with the Palestine movement. In 1925 he gave $500,000 for a Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me [God] to anger.-Book of Jeremiah...
Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...