Word: luba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Page 27 of TIME, Aug. 20 reports that Myron Weiss was married to Luba Wies by Rabbi Wise. Is this one of Mayor Walker's "wise-cracks?" Granting that TIME has these names spelled correctly, I submit the Rabbi is the wisest of the three Wises. He got paid for his share of the performance...
Married. Myron Weiss, Associate Editor of TIME; to Luba Wies, Boston law student; by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; in Manhattan...
...does every year, the American Bible Society last week announced how many copies of Holy Scripture it had printed and distributed in the previous year. Counting translations, such as the edition in Luba Lulua (destined for 2,000,000 black tribesmen in Africa) the year's grand total was some nine million copies?an increase of 600,000 over 1925. The Society implied this made the Bible by far the most influential book printed in the U. S. The 600,000 increase alone dwarfs the 1925 sale of any so-called "bestseller" of fiction, technical instruction, free verse or whatever...