Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sonorous tones familiar to Cleveland's temple last week filled the committee room at Lake Success: "In these tragic years, when the whole household of Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...
...away from Lake Success, another Arab nodded approvingly at Cattan's performance. From his beflowered villa in Cairo's Qubba Gardens (guarded inside by Palestinian gunmen, outside by Egyptian troops), Haj Amin el Husseini, onetime Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator, directed the work of the Arab Higher Committee. Said he: "We go to New York, but we are under no obligations to accept any solution unless it is favorable. If unfavorable, we will fight...
...Zealand's Sir Carl August Berendsen last week was sitting under a cold air outlet from the air-conditioning system of the huge Lake Success committee room. Finally he rose to a point of temperature...
Looking ahead after the success of its first two post-war ventures in the literary world, the Advocate is currently making plans for an all-drama issue next November. Editor Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47 issued a preliminary request last night for contributions--particularly original one-act plays--to be submitted early in the fall term...
Terming the philosophy of success a suicidal code of living, Zimmerman calls for order and system in dally affaire. At first, he admits, it may be difficult to acquire the art of carefree, but the ability, Zimmerman promises, can be achieved with unremitting practice...