Word: sokolow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World President of the Zionists is Nahum Sokolow, scholarly, goateed journalist who was elected last summer (TIME, July 27). Currently President Sokolow is visiting the U. S. Last week in Manhattan, before starting on a tour of the Midwest, he spoke at the opening of the American Palestine Campaign. Nahum Sokolow speaks twelve tongues (he politely corrected Louis Wiley of the New York Times who, at a dinner, credited him with only nine). He addressed his audience in Yiddish last week, departing from his set speech to eulogize the late Boris Schatz, head of the Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts...
...Last week Nathan Straus Jr., 42, son of the late Charitarian Nathan Straus, assumed leadership for the first time in fund-raising activities of any sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near at hand. . . . Millions...
...recent throat operation, Dr. Weizmann hurried from the hall where he had been presiding, cried: "I could not stand it any longer! It is irresponsible and unparliamentary!" Then last week, after long hours of angry debate, a coalition of anti-Weizmannites gathered 118 votes and by electing Dr. Nahum Sokolow president made known their disapproval of the "eternal disgrace...
...they insured a new policy? Few thought so: some said they would have voted for the Mustermesse janitor in order to have a new deal. Day after Dr. Sokolow's election the Congress elected an executive committee in which the majority are Weizmannites. Extremist in talk, the Congress had ended by becoming moderate in action, for the new president, 72-year-old Dr. Sokolow, is conservative, suave, quiet. Eminent among Jewish linguists and scholars, he has all his life been a journalist. Emotionally he spoke at the opening meeting, not in the statesman's but in the Hebraist...