Word: simon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There have been six Jewish U. S. Senators?Philip Judah Benjamin, Louisiana (1853-61); Simon Guggenheim, Colorado (1907-13); Benjamin Franklin Jonas, Louisiana (1879-85) ; Isidor Rayner, Maryland (1904-10) ; Joseph Simon, Oregon (1897-1903) ; David Levy Yulee,* Florida (1845-51 and 1855-61). There were ten Jewish Representatives, no Jewish Senators in the 69th Congress. A Jewish Cabinet officer was Oscar Straus who was Secretary of Commerce & Labor in Roosevelt's Cabinet (1906-09). Probably the highest public office held by a U. S. Jew today is the seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench occupied by Louis...
...apology comes late, and we hope it is sincere and that he will not again be led into harming a people as he has done to the Jews."?Manager S. H. Simon of B. Manischewitz Matzoth Co.. Chicago...
...that this Salon had been done by Pierre Patou in three shades of soft grey Pyrenees marble, with strange, geometric, golden glass lighting by Lalique. On Sunday Mr. Herrick found that he might worship in a chapel, two stories high, done with emboine panels upon lemonwood by Nelson et Simon, who had placed upon the altar an ultra-modern crucifix in molded glass, blazing from concealed lamps...
GUGGENHEIM-Haydie Eames and Madeleine Marshall-Simon & Schuster...
...blush by those who could not wait to speak, yet lost upon the entrance of the next eager voice, this is, not perhaps to enjoy learning at all times, but to discover an unbroken path to continually greater wisdom. Restraint, seclusion, and observation are well-known watchwords of the simon pure student...