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...Mohammed's birthday. The lone Jew paced slowly up and down, pensive in the heavy Palestine dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha B'Ab, to lament the two destructions of the Temple. So old are those stones that, looking at them, one can reconstruct the scene of the first destruction when in 586 B. C. the Chaldeans, sword and armor glittering in the bright sun, swept through the Holy City, razed the Temple. Another scene...
Most human and imaginative?Secretary Lament...
...York City exercised ingenuity last week in diphtheria prevention work. At the suggestion of its Diphtheria Prevention Commission (Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, president), Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne borrowed a half-dozen trucks from the street cleaning department, cleaned them, placarded them with warnings against diphtheria, and advice to use toxin-antitoxins. Aboard each car he loaded a doctor, two nurses and a refrigerator full of toxin-antitoxin. Then these "healthmobiles" rolled forth among the city's millions like itinerant waffle carts. Spectacular, convenient, they "sold" the idea of preparing in July for winter's diphtheria, administered...
...Washington one day last week journeyed the four U. S. members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed...
Last week Morgan-Partner Thomas William Lament, lately abroad as a Reparations agent for the U. S., confirmed a report that he had purchased The Sackville Children from the present Lord Sackville...