Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel A. Derieux, Wild Bill McCorkle. Editor Merle Crowell. American...
...first luncheon-meeting of the Round Table, organized by the National Civic Federation, executives and working men ate side by side in the Roosevelt, new Manhattan hotel. "Eliminate Waste-Minimize Controversy," was the catchword. The speakers: Herbert Hoover; William Green, who succeeded the late Samuel Gompers as President of the American Federation of Labor (TIME, Dec. 29) ; Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Co. (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS) ; D. L. Cease, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Marcus M. Marks, veteran clothing-merchant and labor-arbiter...
...Samuel Merwin, More Stately Mansions. Editor Karl E. Harriman. Red Book...
...proceedings were begun by Grand Rabbi Abraham Kuk, who pronounced a prayer. Dr. Weizmann declared the University open. Sir Herbert Samuel conveyed the good wishes of the British Government. Then, Lord Balfour arose and, as he did so, some 16,000 feet kept time to some 16,000 gesticulating arms waved by their cheering owners. Minutes passed before the distinguished speaker could speak. The ovation was such that the walls of the amphitheatre and the crowded boughs of nearby trees were endangered. At length?silence...
Several hundred years later, Israel became a Theocracy and, later still, a kingdom under Saul of the Benjamin Tribe, annointed by Samuel "the last Judge in Israel." Other kings were David and Solomon, after whom the Kingdom was divided: Kingdom of Israel; Kingdom of Judah, which was at one time captured by Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into Babylonian captivity. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Sargon, King of Assyria, in 772 B.C. The Kingdom of Judah came to an end when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian...