Word: rabbies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise LL.D...
Thursday. Chairman Snell let it be known that he would "run it through'' in one last session. He did. The convention was prayed over by Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of St. Louis. Then Joseph Scott, premier orator of Pasadena who has two tremendous eyebrows and two sons in the Catholic priesthood, stood up to renominate his friend Herbert Hoover...
...Manhattan Island. ..... Litt D. William Henry ("Popsy") Welch, Dean of U. S. Medicine, board president of Rockefeller Institute, professor of history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University ...... Sc.D. Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, N. Y. U. alumnus ...... Mus.D. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange ..... C.S.D. Jonah Bondi Wise, rabbi of Manhattan's Central Synagog, editor of The American Israelite ..... Litt.D...
...October 16. I was shooting at him! But I do feel bitter toward those pacifists who made that war necessary and are doing all in their power to bring on the next. I can't help but feel that people like Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams. Dr. Fosdick and Rabbi Wise were the murderers of a brave squad that was cut down before a machinegun nest at Chevieres...
Among the hundred-odd fairly odd characters who live through the two decades (1910-30) spanned by the book, the least forgettable are: Mrs. Tregunter who lives on weak tea, lettuce leaves and hatred of the Jews; Rabbi Shulman who has the Talmud on the brain; Benny Edelman whose rescue of Tommie Wright from drowning induces Philanthropist Emmanuel to give a Magnolia Street party, which brings the Jews and gentiles together temporarily. But Mrs. Wright sees Benny naked after the rescue; their subsequent marriage cuts Benny off from his Jewish family for good...