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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. David de Sola Pool, rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish & Portuguese Synagog, presided over the Union of Sephardic Congregations.? The chief problems are to make a new English translation of their Hebrew prayer book; to organize a U. S. school to train rabbis in their ritual, which is slightly different from the Ashkenazic ritual. (Sephardic rabbis now must be imported. Rabbi Pool was trained in England...
That was ten years ago. The colleges felt the criticism, produced a good deal of rather bad "rationalization" to justify their position, and drifted uneasily into the morasses of a vocational training which as often as not was quite useless to train anybody for a vocation. At the same time they turned in another direction, and the employment or "placement" bureau appeared in hundreds of institutions which felt themselves under an obligation not only to "educate" their students but to get them started in some sort of life that would satisfy them. The results -- and President William Mather Lewis...
...conductor could do no more than call an ambulance when the train reached Tokyo. Admiral Kato's brave protege died in hospital. Practically the entire Japanese press assumed that his suicide was a protest against the Treaty, though he left behind no explanation...
From Petersburgh Junction, Mass., to Berlin Center, N. Y., is 19^ miles. James Brown, 100, too impatient to wait six hours for a train, walked the distance in seven hours. Said he: "I had me a little springtime cold. So I come back over to 'York State to dig me some yarbs and roots to make some syrup...
Less experienced is Frau Dyhrenfurth. whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...