Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a task which President Coolidge has set himself. Congress changed the latter, last spring, to facilitate getting the U. S. out of the shipping business, and President Coolidge appointed new men to the Shipping Board-men not enamored of government operation. Since these changes, the Shipping Board has met to consider its duty. Last week it voted to sell the three large merchant fleets remaining under U. S. ownership...
...Rabbis met at Chicago for the 30th annual convention of the Centra] Conference of American Rabbis. Interest centered upon the address of President Hyman G. Enelow of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, who urged his confreres to emphasize and define the character, the enlightened program of Jewry...
...Nuns met in Chicago in the 2 5th annual convention of the Catholic Educational Association. Meeting with the nuns were priests. Bishop Francis W. Howard of Covington, Ky., said: "Catholic education is constantly on the increase in the U. S. . . . both in the college, the secondary schools and the parish schools...
Zionists. In Pittsburgh last week met the embattled Women's Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah. Mrs. Zip Szold, Honorary Secretary, read a report commending the policy of President Irma L. Lindheim, who had criticized the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Louis Lipsky (see col. 2). Soon afterward, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. Lindheim president...
Miscellaneous. In various corners ot the U. S. miscellaneous gatherings occurred. On Star Island, off New Hampshire, the Unitarian Young People's Religious Union met, talked, prayed. In Chautauqua, N. Y., the educational conference of the Young Men's Christian Association. In Chicago, the world service commission of the Methodist Church. Elsewhere, others...