Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 13 centuries, a group of Mohammedans last week made the pilgrimage to Mecca (fifth religious duty of every True Believer) by air.* From Algiers two planes carried 25 Moslems to Mecca for Bairam, solemn annual festival at which every pilgrim sacrifices a ram, a he-goat, a cow or a camel...
...collection has become a mecca for all fighters and managers, many of whom are so awed they contribute treasures of their own. Fleischer thinks of his museum as a sacred trust. He has willed it to the New York Public Library...
...Soviet Union Government, which two months ago resuscitated the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), last week bowed toward Mecca. Though the Bolsheviks have carried on an unflagging struggle with the more pious believers among their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...
They came up out of the Times Square subways like pilgrims bound for Mecca. Most of them were children. Some were draped to the bricks in green porkpie hats, sharp canary-yellow coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or not, they lined up at Manhat tan's Paramount Theater box office and waited. They were jitterbugs, and they were there to dig Harry Haag James, one time circus contortionist, virtuoso trumpeter, and leader of the nation's swing band sensation...
...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...