Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith in the Jewish homeland, praising the Jewish Agency-to which Zionists and non-Zionists subscribe-for its activities: "We see the hand of Providence in the opening of the gates of Palestine for the Jewish people at a time when a large portion of Jewry is so desperately in need of a friendly shelter and a home where a spiritual, cultural centre may be developed in accordance with Jewish ideals." For a decade the Union of American Hebrew Congregations has had no president, the duties of that office having been capably handled...
...profession has become popularly characterized by that minority portion of its membership which has consistently taken a hostile stand to proposals and legislation of a forward-looking character . . . [concerning] child labor, reasonable business regulation, security and labor." "[The minority's concern for liberty has been property." secondary to its concern for Earnest Morris Ernst's clarion call did not go unanswered. Within a fortnight more than 250 letters came into the National Lawyers Guild's Manhattan offices, others were addressed to Mr. Walsh personally. Preceding a national convention in Washington next month, scores of cities sought charters...
...since its founding a vast collection of drawings, plans, models of important New York buildings, both extant and vanished. Through the children of the late Berthold Hochschild, one of the founders of American Metal Co., a room soon to be doubled in size has been provided to show a portion of these publicly. On exhibit in the Hochschild architecture gallery were four microscopically exact models, made by unemployed architects under the Architects' Emergency Committee, of Manhattan buildings important in the development of U. S. architecture: cupolaed Federal Hall, on whose balcony George Washington took his oath of office...
Connoisseurs of typhoons, the Filipinos thought little of it when one of these lethal storms whipped straight across the lower portion of Luzon fortnight ago. Only ten or 15 people were killed and a few hundred houses razed. But like a man who rejoices at escaping the jaws of a crocodile only to be crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva...
...stockholders proposing liquidation the Mayflower directors argued that a twelve-month tax year was too short a yardstick for this type of investing, observing "The successful realization of its [Mayflower's] objectives requires the averaging of profits and losses over a period of years, and a substantial portion of the profits of one year must be available to absorb losses of other years. Sound business judgment does not permit the annual distribution of all earnings...