Word: sokolovic
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Left to themselves in comparative peace, by the Vienna rabble, the 14th Zionist Congressmen (TIME, Aug. 24th, 31) last week made war with one another. The Congress had practically decided to elect Nahum Sokolov, executive committee head, President of the World Zionists. The outgoing President, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, was apparently willing to take a vacation...
...Nahum Sokolov been a man of greater soul-breadth, he might have restored peace and been elected President. For he is a most distinguished man in whom his race takes pride. Born in Wishograd, Russian Poland, he was an intellectual prodigy at ten. He has been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support...
...Nahum Sokolov, member of the Executive Committee, was chosen to succeed Dr. Weizmann as President...