Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short-bearded speaker was Harry Fischel, until last week acting president of Manhattan's Yeshiva College, builder of the first U. S. Yiddish theatre (the Grand, on Grand Street, Manhattan), builder of apartments and office buildings on Manhattan's Park Avenue, native of Russia, loyal orthodox...
...deep-voiced, long-bearded second man was Rabbi Morris S. Margolies, last week elected president of Yeshiva and of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He, too, is a native of Russia. In 1899 he became rabbi of the Boston Orthodox Community. Since 1906 he has been rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. In Manhattan there are few orthodox Jewish activities to which his name has not been attached. Orphans and the aged have listened for his slow steps, rabbinical students have harkened to his priestly wisdom. His greatest fondness is study, his ambition bringing Jewish culture and spiritual...
...Baptists, whose membership verges on 10,000,000 baptized souls, achieved their greatest potency not so much by their religious beliefs alone as by founding countless welfare homes, over 90 colleges and universities. In Russia likewise, Baptists began to administer Baptist welfare, to build Baptist homes...
...circumstances that we entered upon that period of Exhaustion that has been described as Peace." Mr. Churchill, British Minister of War during "the" war, describes it in terms of exasperation, cynicism, vitriolic indignation. Though he was at the Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference...
...reconstruction for which he was personally responsible - at home, in Russia, Ireland, Turkey, Palestine. Notoriously hostile to the Bolshevik regime, he castigates the man whose body is "still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy...