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...synagogue the rabbi stands before his people like a Semitic tribal chief. Sunset falls. The rabbi picks up a yellowed ram's horn and tongues it into the cadences of the TEKIAH. It is the call to Jews, their reminder that God created the world out of a void and howling darkness 5,689 years ago. Rosh Hashonah, the New Year, opens; the Book of Life is closed upon the passed year...
Senate-leaders Curtis (Republican) and Robinson (Democrat) had put their heads together and determined that, after all, Flood Relief was not a thing to bicker and trifle over. They had agreed to ram Senator Jones' bill, all points of which had been settled in committee, through to a vote at the first opportunity. The opportunity came when Wisconsin's Blaine long and earnestly opposed Senator Norbeck's migratory bird bill, providing Federal bird sanctuaries to be paid for by Federal hunting licenses at $1 each. So long, so earnestly did Senator Elaine and one or two others...
...Ram v. Presmont...
...Chevy Chase, Md., a large ram "with long, sharp horns" spied a Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont. He bounded toward her, butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran away as rapidly as possible. The ram followed her, again butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran around a tree; the ram followed her, twice butted her. At last the crew of a passing automobile truck came to restrain the ram. Bruised & exhausted, Mrs. Presmont said: "I was terrified. But its a glorious good thing...
...Anshe Ernes Congregation, Chicago, was to broadcast (through the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ) music, chanting, ram's horning and sermons of its Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New Year's) services this week. ¶The Jewish Tribune, weekly magazine, learned in editorials, popular in text, in its Rosh Hashonah number issued last week, started a contest among its readers to decide "which Jew, by his service to America, deserves to be honored with a statue. ... No Jew has been nationally honored by the community for his services to America. In New York City, the Jews number about...