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...expanding Hebrew schools and training more Hebrew teachers. The organization will also raise money to support religious schools and settlements in Israel.* Elected president of the A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit's Mishkan Israel Synagogue, former national vice president of Mizrachi. Said Honorary Cochairman, Mordecai Kirshblum: "We represent the religious aspiration of Jewry to see in Israel not only a revival of the soil, but also of the soul...
Your March 19 story of Mordecai Johnson and Howard University is a bright chapter in the history of American education. You can add to the list of distinguished alumni of Howard the name of Charles Dunbar Sherman, Finance Minister of Liberia and Economic Adviser...
...MORDECAI W. JOHNSON...
...Moral Obligation. Today, after 30 years of Mordecai Johnson, Howard is the nation's leading Negro campus. Nearly half of all U.S. Negro doctors and dentists are Howard men. as are a fourth of the Negro lawyers. But the university's influence is not limited to the U.S. alone. Among American colleges and universities, it ranks third in the percentage of foreign students enrolled...
When Johnson took over, the university had few things to boast about. It had a flourishing medical school, and its faculty included such teachers as Philosopher Alain Locke, the first and only Negro Rhodes scholar. But it had little money, and when Mordecai Johnson appeared before Congress to ask for more, one Representative bluntly warned him: "Young man, we may as well come to an understanding. We have no obligation to consider the needs of Howard." Johnson took his case to the Department of the Interior, persuaded Assistant Secretary Edward Finney that the Government had a "moral obligation...