Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last May but sat among the extras and left by the side door. He wears black hats turned up all the way around like a rabbi's, occasionally a beret...
...crowd sang La Marseillaise (well), the Star-Spangled Banner (badly). A U. S. Catholic priest pronounced a solemn benediction. He was followed by a rabbi and a Protestant minister. A French military band played the eerie Hymn to the Dead. In his Rooseveltian voice, bald William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, introduced the Deputy from Meuse, who spoke no English. Wartime Aviator Harry W. Colmery, Commander of the American Legion, orated for his 4,000,000 comrades, about half of whom got to France before the War was over. Wildly applauded, General Pershing made the formal dedication...
...Great Britain is guilty of the gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust!" cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
...will get the president of the Protestant Ministers' Union, the Catholic Bishop and the Jewish Rabbi, together with the President of the Chamber of Commerce, to join with you in leading a mob on the jail, I will turn the prisoner over to you-otherwise you will never get him, for I now have the jail packed with National Guardsmen." No mob came and the prisoner was legally executed about 90 days later...
...Rabbis. Two hundred members of the world's largest rabbinical assembly, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform Jews), also met last week in Columbus, exchanged greetings with the Presbyterians. Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gup told the Christians: "The world needs just this sort of demonstration in which you and we are taking part today...