Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bank merged with Foreman National (Chicago's leading Jewish bank). Promptly came Depression, Foreman-State was burdened down not by the sins of Mr Head but by the sins of pre-Depression banking. When Foreman-State was taken over by Melvin Traylor's First National in the summer of 1931, Walter Head was set back on his heels, out of a job. He became president of Morris Plan Corp., the Manhattan organization with Morns Plan banks in over 100 cities making small "character loans" to working men. Now as president of General American Life, he gives up banking...
...likely that the future will have a pretty good idea what Gertrude Stein looked like. Picasso has painted her, Picabia has drawn her. Jo Davidson has done a joss-like statue of her. Never a beauty, she is now massive, middleaged, 59, would strongly resemble a fat Jewish hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain American, she likes people, is always ac- cessible...
...which to them are as exact as mathematics) that because fleshly dissolution could not come to Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed to have taken place from three to 40 days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself taken into Heaven, unlike Jesus Christ "who went up thither by His own power." By an apocryphal tradition, the Apostles were miraculously assembled by God to see Mary's empty tomb. But no record of such an event has been found. The Church...
Died. Ezekiel Sarasohn, 69, longtime (1905-28) editor & publisher of the Jewish Gazette, founded by his father in 1874, and the Jewish Daily News, first Yiddish papers published in the U.S.; after long illness; in New Rochelle...
Tamiris (née Helen Becker) was born in Manhattan 30 years ago of a Jewish family. She learned to dance first in the din of Brooklyn's streets, under the elevated tracks. Later she studied with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and briefly in the Isadora Duncan and Fokine schools. In 1929 she was the only dancer at Austria's Salzburg Festival, startled sedate Europeans by her renditions of jazz and Negro spirituals. In spite of her formal training, Tamiris considers herself largely self-schooled, likes to think of her dancing as part of an indigenous...