Word: pincus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these facts tended to be played down by loyal Jewish correspondents in Palestine until last week. Then suddenly the story spilled out. Everything was all right now-Pincus Rutenberg had taken charge...
Enigmatic Pincus Rutenberg is an ex-Russian, an ex-soldier of the late Tsar Nicholas II, and the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-Government of Russia. When he sought refuge in London, such statesmen as the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill praised him for having done his policeful best in Moscow to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky. Soon a syndicate of British and Zionist capitalists sent him out to found the Palestine Electric Corp. (TIME, March 4). Today he is the Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened...
...Shedden Dobbie were in Palestine, mightfully striving to restore order and protect not only the large cities but such strategic towns as El Abadiyeh and Jur-el-Mujami (see map), twin sites of the chief generating stations of the Palestine Power Trust, founded and managed by famed, dynamic Zionist Pincus Rutenberg (TIME, Mar. 4). Neither bristling, florid, militant General Dobbie nor the cold, curt High Commissioner made the smallest vestige of an answer to the week's most vital question: Why were not adequate British forces rushed to Palestine three weeks ago when the Wailing Wall riots unmistakably threatened...
...common among children. Dr. Weiss made the discovery by shrewdly interpreting the ominous irregularity of heartbeats in children sick at Montefiore Hospital. But he refused to believe his own ears, for medical literature had reported only nine such cases in all history. So he consulted with Dr. Sidney Pincus Schwartz of Manhattan, a visiting physician. Together they searched hospital records; examined every child they could find with heart disease; found that out of 63 cases, 13 suffered from fibrillation. This they reported to the New York Academy of Medicine a fortnight ago. Last week Dr. Weiss continued his efforts...
...Alcove" is the name of the newest book store on the Square, where Harvard students may purchase the newest and the oldest works of fiction. The Alcove is owned by two students, Leon Sifschitz 1L., and Bernard Pincus '25. Every sort of book is sold except textbooks, and the proprietors intend to make the Alcove a spot where book lovers may browse about to their hearts' content...