Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hotels. Gibble-gabble yielded place to political economy. Sight-seeing became people-seeing. The world was micrographed. On Sunday morning Importance climbed a narrow road up the steep central hill toward church. It went to hear the League of Nations sermon preached by an American, whom a famed Jew, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, had described as "Fosdick?the least hated and best loved heretic that ever lived." That a heretic should also be the most widely acclaimed pulpit-orator of his generation was (to the Geneva cosmopolites) one of those magnificent Americanisms which added flavor to the most solemn occasion...
...Taft) 151,430 Mrs. Charles P. Taft 121,753 William Howard Taft 1,723 Booth Tarkington 8,478 Louis Tiffany (Jewels) 48,220 Reginald Vanderbilt 44,006 Frank A. Vanderlip 74,599 Henry Walters (Art) 475,851 George J. Whelan (Tobacco).... 201,081 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson 349 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise 547 William Wrigley (Gum) 2,644 Adolph Zukor...
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Zionism's 14th Congress (TIME, Aug. 24) survived another Viennese week of rioting. Its environment was described by a distinguished delegate, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan...
...festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian F. Reisner, who raised the money. The assembly marched to the uptown church where, after a prayer by a Baptist minister, a Scripture reading by a rabbi, a onetime U.S. District Attorney (Colonel William Hay ward) talked about money. Said...