Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President was convulsed with laughter by the bathing arrangements in his room. A large green tub partly in the room and partly built into the wall. Over this is a mezzanine gallery where he could have musicians play while he bathed! But the President had his clothes pressed there instead...
Last year the Arabs made the Wall a prime factor in their war upon Zionism. As Jews went to their weeping places, rowdy Arab boys molested them. Riots ensued which spread throughout Palestine. About 100 Jews were killed, a few Arabs (TIME...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...
...posters forbade Jews to use candles at the Wailing Wall the eve of the Fast. It forbade them to use mats for squatting during the Lamentations. It forbade them to celebrate Kiddush levana, the blessing of the new moon...
...Dungeon Treatment: Girls have been confined in two compartments, each about six by eight feet in size. They look like shed roof hen houses and are built against the wall of a rather dark attic in the top of the boys' building. The only air that can get in comes in directly through a space covered by chicken wire at the top of the front. It is about six inches by eight feet. One cannot see his hand in front of him when inside. There is no furniture except a blanket and pail in a corner. Girls have been...