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...black-robed rabbi glanced down at the casket covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori, many & many another. As the organ's whisper floated away, the rabbi said...
Among the 2,000 who reverently followed the remains of Louis Wiley out of Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El last week, few felt the rabbi's eulogy was unduly exaggerated. For Louis Wiley, the undersized, dynamic and somewhat pompous business manager of the New York Times, was not only an extraordinary newspaperman but one of the kindliest individuals his profession ever produced...
...Poland, the lean, sponging Rabbi-brother of Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff makes a fairly good thing out of going down to the Bialystok station when "Maxie's" special train is going through to Warsaw, sometimes gets enough money to pay a month's rent, sometimes only one of Maxie's cigars, sometimes a cuffing from Maxie's Red Guards. Last week in Lodz the potent Bolshevik's indigent old sister Ester was shoved into the street by an irate landlord who dumped her furniture on the pavement...
Lord Beaverbrook's moneymaking, stunt-loving London Daily Express was not so generous, Rabbi Yankel Vallach of Lodz not so greedy, as TIME (People. Feb. 25) would have them. If Rabbi Vallach told the Express all he knew about his brother, Soviet Commissar Litvinoff, for 100 zloties, he received a mere $19 and not $1,900-a sum which would have made the good rabbi an exceedingly rich man among his people in Lodz...
...this ideal Sunday School is neither Catholic nor Protestant but Jewish. It is run by Rabbi Louis Leopold Mann, 44, of Sinai Congregation in Chicago...