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...Last week Isaac conducted the Fishberg family's Passover services with true patriarchal dignity. Fishbergs from Manhattan and The Bronx, with their wives and children, put away their fiddles and trombones to visit him in Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac, his grey, cropped hair covered with a black skullcap, looked them over sharply. Isaac (by a previous wife) had begotten so many children he could hardly keep track of them. Of a total of 16, ten-Arriga, Theodore, Jascha, William, Mischa, Pearl, Lisa, Bessie, Rebecca and Fishel-were in the U.S. Ten grandchildren were either professional musicians...
John Garner stepped close, rattled off the oath to grave Henry Wallace. In a voice that reached to Iowa, Mr. Wallace said: "I do," and was Vice President. Now the plaza became really still. Mr. Roosevelt moved forward. The Chief Justice had jerked off his skullcap. Mr. Hughes stated the oath and the President repeated the worn, full, old words: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...gaunt, dark-eyed man in a skullcap and ermine-trimmed robe, Franklin Roosevelt had written a letter for Christmas, remembering perhaps how that man's long pale hands had twisted with painful earnestness when they talked together of world peace three years...
Garbed in flowing gown, full-fashioned wig, black skullcap and white neckerchief, "Father Moody" will appear this Sunday at the meeting house built the year he died. As of yore, his congregation will be drummed to meeting, the tithing man will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious...
...peace, harmony and fraternity" among all Rumanian faiths. Handsomely he wrote Dr. Jacob Isaac Niemirower, Chief Rabbi of 1,000,000 Rumanian Jews, that "the Jewish religion is recognized to enable it to make better human beings and more faithful citizens of its followers." Chief Rabbi Niemirower, his yarmulke (skullcap) bobbing with excitement, ordered synagog gatherings throughout Rumania on the day of prayer, to pledge Jewry's loyalty and devotion...