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...bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
...quavering voice. But this year's most notable observation of Rosh Hashanah, was in Manhattan, where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only...
Your issue of Aug. 12, p. 50, under Medicine refers to drunkenness. I am moved by this article to give you the definition of Dean Samuel F. Mordecai, late of the Law School of Duke University...
...school, established soon thereafter, includes white and colored students. For almost 50 years the school had little money. Teachers received little pay. Then the Rockefeller General Education Board gave it $250,000, individual whites about $80,000 and Negroes a little more than $170,000. President of Howard is Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Negro...
Negroes may be freed from civil slavery, but segregation of them in colored churches is just as bad, declared Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C., before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in convention at Rochester, N. Y. The Council, completing its quadrennial meeting, adopted resolutions to give special attention to the griefs of Negro brethren...