Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week was Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount Allenby, introduced by Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times to a U. S. radio audience. Dr. Finley was lunching in Manhattan with Y. M. C. A. men. Lord Allenby was in Jerusalem, the city he delivered to the Allies in 1917. He had returned there to dedicate the finest Y. M. C. A. building in the world, to deliver the first radio speech ever internationally broadcast from Palestine...
Long a maker of news in Jerusalem, Antioch, and Rome, last week Simon Bar-Jena (might have) made news in New York...
Peter's Bones, Another matter which the Pope has been considering is a shrine nearer home. In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reputed tomb of the very founder of the Church. After Christ's resurrection Peter was delivered from jail in Jerusalem by an angel, went to Antioch and then, according to some Protestant and all Catholic opinion, to Rome, where during Nero's persecutions he was crucified head downwards near the spot where his basilica now stands. St. Peter's head is in St. John Lateran. His body is supposed...
...Brussels a Professor Paul Otlet got on the world's news-cables by a plan to build a gigantic neutral World City on the River Scheldt opposite Antwerp. Creation of a New Jerusalem would, with U. S. aid and finance, end Depression...
...week to hear that one of his fellows was bringing Kaddish into court. In Joplin, Mo. last May died Louis Bormaster, shoe merchant. To conduct the ritual prayers the family got Rabbi Harry Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant Bormaster's death, Rabbi Wolf gave this up and began the prayers. Daily, for nearly seven months, Rabbi Wolf would intone: ". . . Deevroh Be'olmoh Rabbo Sh'mai Veyiskadash Yisgadal" (Magnified and sanctified be His Great Name in the world he created . . . ). After that...