Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the group of prominent men who have been secured to speak are Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Insinuate of International Education; Rev. John Haynes Holmes 02, rector of Community Church, New York, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Free Synagogue, New York...
...General George W. Wickersham for the American Bar Association, Bishop Charles H. Brent for the Episcopal Church, Samuel Gompers (by proxy) for the American Federation of Labor, Walker D. Hines for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw for the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, Rabbi Abram Simons for the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Miss Jane Addams and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt for the Women's World Court Committee; A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard; Professor Manly O. Hudson, also of Harvard; Theodore Marburg, former Ambassador to Belgium, and many another. And yet, knowing...
Married. Dorothy Dalton, 28, cinema actress, to Arthur Hammerstein, 51, thrice-divorced son of the late Oscar Hammerstein; in Chicago, by one Rabbi Hirshfield. Miss Dalton was divorced from Lew Cody...
...Chief Rabbi Kook stated that Israel Zangwill was absolutely mistaken in his condemnation of Great Britain. "The English are no angels, of course," said he, "but their Palestinian motives are in the main idealistic." He is on the most friendly terms with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert, says he, has brought about close coöperation between him, the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and the Mufti* of the Moslems...
...reporter of the New York Evening Post (paper owned by Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis) innocent of all knowledge of Zionism, succeeded only in asking Rabbi Kook what he thought of America. Answer: "Very nice country. Nice reception. Nice mayor. Cannot tell yet about people...