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Public Dignitaries Mourn...
...Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings whenever he spoke. Embarrassed U.S. Jews denounced him as disloyal...
...proved that when doing the music they are suited for, they are on a par with the best amateur choral societies in the Nation. As Dr. Koussevitzky unfolded his reading of this monumental seven section work, the voices surged and glowed from the opening, hushed "Blessed are they that mourn . . ." to the triumphant closing fugue, "Worthy art Thou to be praised...
...John Lewis the mine blast which killed in men at Centralia, Ill. (TIME, April 7) was his opportunity for revenge. Under the guise of a "memorial" shutdown to let his miners mourn their dead, he found a new and gruesome way to strike, despite Government ownership of the mines, despite the Supreme Court...
...thee, O pure one, now we mourn...